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Taiwan

2026-08-26T02:40:57Z

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{{Infobox place|name=Taiwan|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=89|asof=2026-08-21|image=[[File:taiwan-flag.png|thumb|220px|Taiwan flag. (Sun Yat-sen, Public domain)]][[File:taiwan-map.png|thumb|220px|Taiwan locator map. (李4, GFDL)]]}}

'''Taiwan''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-21|summary=Most recent archived item: How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei - reported by USNI News|latest=USNI News}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-21 - USNI News: How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei
* [2] 2026-08-20 - The Diplomat: China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan
* [3] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Netanyahu's office: Syria risked status quo
* [6] 2026-08-15 - star.com.tr: Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals.
* [7] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [8] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [10] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Xi reaffirms Taiwan reunification goal on CCP's 105th anniversary, North Korea pledges solidarity
* [11] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [12] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* ...and 77 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). [13]

Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland in the Late Pleistocene, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. [14]

In 1895, military defeat forced [[China]]'s Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. [15]

Human remains and Paleolithic artifacts dated 20,000 to 30,000 years ago have been found. [16]

Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II. [17]

Study of the human remains suggested they were Australo-Papuan people similar to Negrito populations in the Philippines. Paleolithic Taiwanese likely settled the Ryukyu Islands 30,000 years ago although other studies suggest no genetic contribution from the aborigines of Taiwan into Ryukyuans. Slash-and-burn agriculture practices started at least 11,000 years ago. Stone tools of the Changbin culture have been found in Taitung and Eluanbi. Archaeological remains suggest they were initially hunter-gatherers that slowly shifted to intensive fishing. The distinct Wangxing culture, found along the Jingshan River of Miaoli County, seemed to have initially been gatherers who shifted to hunting. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President [[Lai Ching-te|LAI Ching-te]] (since 20 May 2024) Head of government: Premier CHO Jung-tai (President of the Executive Yuan) (since 20 May 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East [[China]] Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of China Area: 35,980 sq km Terrain: eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west Natural resources: small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, asbestos, arable land [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: tropical; marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); persistent and extensive cloudiness all year [21]

=== Culture ===

The cultures of Taiwan are a hybrid blend from various sources, incorporating elements of the majority traditional Chinese culture, aboriginal cultures, Japanese cultural influence, traditional Confucianist beliefs, and increasingly, Western values. During the martial law period, the Kuomintang promoted an official traditional Chinese culture over Taiwan in order to emphasize that the Republic of [[China]] represents the true orthodoxy to Chinese Culture as opposed to Communist China. [22]

Ethnic groups: Han Chinese (including Holo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland [[China]]) more than 95%, indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples 2.3% [23]

The government launched what's known as the Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan in opposition to the cultural destructions caused by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution. [24]

Languages: Mandarin (official), Min Nan, Hakka dialects, approximately 16 indigenous languages [25]

The General Assembly of Chinese Culture was established to help promote Chinese culture in Taiwan and overseas. It was Kuomintang's first structured plan for cultural development on Taiwan. [26]

Religions: Buddhist 35.3%, Taoist 33.2%, Christian 3.9%, folk religion (includes Confucian) approximately 10%, none or unspecified 18.2% (2005 est.) [27]

The Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan had led to some aspects of Chinese Culture being better preserved there than in mainland [[China]], for example the continued use of Traditional Chinese. The influence of Confucianism can be found in the behavior of Taiwanese people, known for their friendliness and politeness. The lifting of martial law ushered a period of democratization whereby Freedom of Speech and Expression led to a flourishing Taiwanese literature and mass media in Taiwan. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Taipei Legal system: civil law system [29]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 23,600,776 (2025 est.) [30]

Taiwan has a population of about 23.3 million, most of whom are on the [[USS Makin Island|island]] of Taiwan. [31]

Median age: 45.1 years (2025 est.) [32]

The remainder live on the outlying islands of Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. It has one of the world's lowest fertility rates, with the average number of children born per woman falling below 0.8, far beneath the replacement level of 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population. [33]

Urbanization: 80.1% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 4.504 million New Taipei City, 2.754 million TAIPEI (capital), 2.319 million Taoyuan, 1.553 million Kaohsiung, 1.369 million Taichung, 863,000 Tainan (2023) [34]

Under United Nations criteria, Taiwan has become a super-aged society, with more than 20% of its population aged 65 or older. [35]

Life expectancy: 81.6 years (2024 est.) [36]

The aging population has raised concerns about the long-term sustainability of Taiwan's National Health Insurance system, as a shrinking workforce supports a growing elderly population. Declining birth rates have also led to falling school enrollments, resulting in the merger or closure of some rural elementary and middle schools, with similar pressures increasingly affecting universities. Labor shortages have emerged across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and elderly care. The figures below are the December 2025 estimates for the ten most populous administrative divisions; a different ranking exists when considering the total metropolitan area populations (in such rankings the Taipei-Keelung metro area is by far the largest agglomeration). [37]

=== Military ===

Branches: Taiwan Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force, Information Communication and Electronic Force (ICEF); Ocean Affairs Council: Coast Guard Administration (CGA); Ministry of Interior: National Police (2025) Expenditures: 2.4% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 170,000 active duty Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of domestically produced and foreign-supplied armaments, mostly from the US either as secondhand or direct acquisitions; Taiwan's domestic defense industry produces weapons systems such as aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, and naval platforms (2025) [38]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Taiwan|Timeline: Taiwan]] · [[China]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 3 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +10 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.50226/
* [2] China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691299.924407/
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229412/
* [13] Background: First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). - 1787695286.193155
* [14] Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland in the Late Pleistocene, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. - 1787707564.605905
* [15] Background: In 1895, military defeat forced China's Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. - 1787695286.193155
* [16] Human remains and Paleolithic artifacts dated 20,000 to 30,000 years ago have been found. - 1787707564.605905
* [17] Background: Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II. - 1787695286.193155
* [18] Study of the human remains suggested they were Australo-Papuan people similar to Negrito populations in the Philippines. Paleolithic Taiwanese likely settled the Ryukyu Islands 30,000 years ago although other studies suggest no genetic contribution from the aborigines of Taiwan into Ryukyuans. Slash-and-burn agriculture practices started at least 11,000 years ago. Stone tools of the Changbin culture have been found in Taitung and Eluanbi. Archaeological remains suggest they were initially hunter-gatherers that slowly shifted to intensive fishing. The distinct Wangxing culture, found along the Jingshan River of Miaoli County, seemed to have initially been gatherers who shifted to hunting. - 1787707564.605905
* [19] Chief of state: President LAI Ching-te (since 20 May 2024) Head of government: Premier CHO Jung-tai (President of the Executive Yuan) (since 20 May 2024) - 1787695286.193155
* [20] Location: Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of China Area: 35,980 sq km Terrain: eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west Natural resources: small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, asbestos, arable land - 1787695286.193155
* [21] Climate: tropical; marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); persistent and extensive cloudiness all year - 1787695286.193155
* [22] The cultures of Taiwan are a hybrid blend from various sources, incorporating elements of the majority traditional Chinese culture, aboriginal cultures, Japanese cultural influence, traditional Confucianist beliefs, and increasingly, Western values. During the martial law period, the Kuomintang promoted an official traditional Chinese culture over Taiwan in order to emphasize that the Republic of China represents the true orthodoxy to Chinese Culture as opposed to Communist China. - 1787707564.605905
* [23] Ethnic groups: Han Chinese (including Holo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland China) more than 95%, indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples 2.3% - 1787695286.193155
* [24] The government launched what's known as the Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan in opposition to the cultural destructions caused by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution. - 1787707564.605905
* [25] Languages: Mandarin (official), Min Nan, Hakka dialects, approximately 16 indigenous languages - 1787695286.193155
* [26] The General Assembly of Chinese Culture was established to help promote Chinese culture in Taiwan and overseas. It was Kuomintang's first structured plan for cultural development on Taiwan. - 1787707564.605905
* [27] Religions: Buddhist 35.3%, Taoist 33.2%, Christian 3.9%, folk religion (includes Confucian) approximately 10%, none or unspecified 18.2% (2005 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [28] The Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan had led to some aspects of Chinese Culture being better preserved there than in mainland China, for example the continued use of Traditional Chinese. The influence of Confucianism can be found in the behavior of Taiwanese people, known for their friendliness and politeness. The lifting of martial law ushered a period of democratization whereby Freedom of Speech and Expression led to a flourishing Taiwanese literature and mass media in Taiwan. - 1787707564.605905
* [29] Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Taipei Legal system: civil law system - 1787695286.193155
* [30] Population: 23,600,776 (2025 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [31] Taiwan has a population of about 23.3 million, most of whom are on the island of Taiwan. - 1787707564.605905
* [32] Median age: 45.1 years (2025 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [33] The remainder live on the outlying islands of Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. It has one of the world's lowest fertility rates, with the average number of children born per woman falling below 0.8, far beneath the replacement level of 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population. - 1787707564.605905
* [34] Urbanization: 80.1% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 4.504 million New Taipei City, 2.754 million TAIPEI (capital), 2.319 million Taoyuan, 1.553 million Kaohsiung, 1.369 million Taichung, 863,000 Tainan (2023) - 1787695286.193155
* [35] Under United Nations criteria, Taiwan has become a super-aged society, with more than 20% of its population aged 65 or older. - 1787707564.605905
* [36] Life expectancy: 81.6 years (2024 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [37] The aging population has raised concerns about the long-term sustainability of Taiwan's National Health Insurance system, as a shrinking workforce supports a growing elderly population. Declining birth rates have also led to falling school enrollments, resulting in the merger or closure of some rural elementary and middle schools, with similar pressures increasingly affecting universities. Labor shortages have emerged across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and elderly care. The figures below are the December 2025 estimates for the ten most populous administrative divisions; a different ranking exists when considering the total metropolitan area populations (in such rankings the Taipei-Keelung metro area is by far the largest agglomeration). - 1787707564.605905
* [38] Branches: Taiwan Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force, Information Communication and Electronic Force (ICEF); Ocean Affairs Council: Coast Guard Administration (CGA); Ministry of Interior: National Police (2025) Expenditures: 2.4% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 170,000 active duty Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of domestically produced and foreign-supplied armaments, mostly from the US either as secondhand or direct acquisitions; Taiwan's domestic defense industry produces weapons systems such as aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, and naval platforms (2025) - 1787695286.193155

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background sources: CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:Conflicts]]

Sudan

2026-08-26T02:40:57Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, 0 provenance group(s), 2026-02-27..2026-08-25

{{Infobox place|name=Sudan|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=87|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:sudan-flag.png|thumb|220px|Sudan flag. (See File history below for details., Public domain)]][[File:sudan-map.png|thumb|220px|Sudan locator map. (Keepscases, CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Sudan''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Sudan announces it intercepted a drone from Ethiopia - reported by RFI|latest=RFI}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - RFI: Sudan announces it intercepted a drone from Ethiopia
* [2] 2026-08-25 - RFI: Sudan announces it intercepted a drone coming from Ethiopia.
* [3] 2026-08-25 - Africanews: South Sudan: Two UN peacekeepers killed, seven injured
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Radio Dabanga: Port Sudan detainees launch hunger strike over ‘endless’ trial delays
* [5] 2026-08-25 - Radio Dabanga: US moots expanding Darfur arms embargo to cover drones and all of Sudan
* [6] 2026-08-24 - UN News: Security Council LIVE: War, hunger, flooding escalates in Sudan
* [7] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Ambush in South Sudan kills peacekeeping troops
* [8] 2026-08-24 - UN News: Two UN peacekeepers killed in South Sudan ambush
* [9] 2026-08-23 - Al Jazeera: Video: Thousands of families flee fighting in Sudan’s North Kordofan State
* [10] 2026-08-21 - Radio Dabanga: ‘Takaya’ community kitchen closures threaten 50,000 families in Sudan capital
* [11] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [12] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* ...and 75 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Affad 23 is an archaeological site located in the Affad region of southern Dongola Reach in northern Sudan, which hosts "the well-preserved remains of prehistoric camps (relics of the oldest open-air hut in the world) and diverse hunting and gathering loci some 50,000 years old". [13]

Long referred to as Nubia, modern-day Sudan was the site of the Kingdom of Kerma (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.) until it was absorbed into the New Kingdom of Egypt. By the 11th century B.C., the Kingdom of Kush gained independence from Egypt; it lasted in various forms until the middle of the 4th century A.D. [14]

By the eighth millennium BC, people of a Neolithic culture had settled into a sedentary way of life there in fortified mudbrick villages, where they supplemented hunting and fishing on the Nile with grain gathering and cattle herding. [15]

After the fall of Kush, the Nubians formed three Christian kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria, and Alodia, with the latter two enduring until around 1500. [16]

Neolithic peoples created cemeteries such as R12. During the fifth millennium BC, migrations from the drying Sahara brought neolithic people into the Nile Valley along with agriculture. The population that resulted from this cultural and genetic mixing developed a social hierarchy over the next centuries which became the Kingdom of Kerma at 2500 BC. Anthropological and archaeological research indicates that during the predynastic period Nubia and Nagadan Upper Egypt were ethnically and culturally nearly identical, and thus, simultaneously evolved systems of pharaonic kingship by 3300 BC. The Kerma culture was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan. It flourished from around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in ancient Nubia. [17]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fattah [[Abdul Fatah al-Burhan|al-BURHAN]] Abd-al-Rahman (since 11 November 2021) [18]

=== Geography ===

Location: north-eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea Area: 1,861,484 sq km Terrain: generally flat, featureless plain; desert dominates the north Natural resources: petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower [19]

=== Climate ===

Climate: hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November) [20]

=== Culture ===

Sudanese culture melds the behaviours, practices, and beliefs of about 578 ethnic groups, communicating in numerous different dialects and languages, in a region microcosmic of Africa, with geographic extremes varying from sandy desert to tropical forest. [21]

Ethnic groups: Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Ingessana, Uduk, Fallata, Masalit, Dajo, Gimir, Tunjur, Berti; there are over 500 ethnic groups [22]

Recent evidence suggests that while most citizens of the country identify strongly with both Sudan and their religion, Arab and African supranational identities are much more polarising and contested. [23]

Languages: Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur [24]

Sudan has a rich and unique musical culture that has been through chronic instability and repression during the modern history of Sudan. Beginning with the imposition of strict Salafi interpretation of sharia law in 1983, many of the country's most prominent poets and artists, like Mahjoub [[Shehbaz Sharif|Sharif]], were imprisoned while others, like Mohammed el Amin (returned to Sudan in the mid-1990s) and Mohammed Wardi (returned to Sudan 2003), fled to Cairo. [25]

Religions: Sunni Muslim, small Christian minority [26]

Traditional music suffered too, with traditional Zār ceremonies being interrupted and drums confiscated [1]. At the same time European militaries contributed to the development of Sudanese music by introducing new instruments and styles; military bands, especially the Scottish bagpipes, were renowned, and set traditional music to military march music. The march March Shulkawi No 1, is an example, set to the sounds of the Shilluk. Northern Sudan listens to different music than the rest of Sudan. [27]

=== Government ===

Government type: presidential republic Capital: Khartoum Legal system: mixed system of Islamic law and English common law [28]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 50,467,278 (2024 est.) [29]

In Sudan's 2008 census, the population of northern, western and eastern Sudan was recorded to be over 30 million. [30]

Median age: 19.5 years (2025 est.) [31]

The population of Sudan was estimated to be around 50 million in 2024. [32]

Urbanization: 36.3% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 6.344 million KHARTOUM (capital), 1.057 million Nyala (2023) [33]

This is a significant increase over the past four decades, as the 1983 census put the total population of Sudan, including present-day South Sudan, at 21.6 million. [34]

Life expectancy: 67.8 years (2024 est.) [35]

The population of Greater Khartoum (including Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North) is growing rapidly and was recorded to be 5.2 million. Aside from being a refugee-generating country, Sudan also hosts a large population of refugees from other countries. According to UNHCR statistics, more than 1.1 million refugees and asylum seekers lived in Sudan in August 2019. The majority of this population came from South Sudan (858,607 people), Eritrea (123,413), [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] (93,502), Ethiopia (14,201), the Central African Republic (11,713) and Chad (3,100). Apart from these, the UNHCR report 1,864,195 Internally displaced persons (IDP's). [36]

=== Military ===

Branches: Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF): Ground Force (Sudanese Army), Sudanese Navy, Sudanese Air Force; Rapid Support Forces (RSF); Border Guards; Ministry of Interior: Sudan Police Forces (SPF), Central Reserve Police (CRP) (2025) Personnel: prior to the outbreak of fighting between the SAF and the RSF in 2023, size estimates for Sudan's armed forces varied widely: up to 200,000 SAF; up to 100,000 RSF; up to 80,000 Central Reserve Police (2023) Equipment: the SAF's inventory includes a mix of mostly Chinese, Russian/Soviet, and some domestically produced weapons systems; Sudan has a state-run defense industry, which mostly manufactures copies of foreign-supplied armaments, such as armored vehicles, under license (2025) [37]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Sudan|Timeline: Sudan]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 12 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +1 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — +8 source(s)
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — +4 source(s)
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* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — +1 source(s)
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 12, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

=== Open corrections ===
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* 2026-08-26 — live revid differs from what we pushed; page refused

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Sudan announces it intercepted a drone from Ethiopia - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787709435.074516/
* [2] Sudan announces it intercepted a drone coming from Ethiopia. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787709435.074516/
* [3] South Sudan: Two UN peacekeepers killed, seven injured - http://www.africanews.com/2026/08/25/south-sudan-two-un-peacekeepers-killed-seven-injured/
* [4] Port Sudan detainees launch hunger strike over ‘endless’ trial delays - https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/port-sudan-detainees-launch-hunger-strike-over-endless-trial-delays-2
* [5] US moots expanding Darfur arms embargo to cover drones and all of Sudan - https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/us-moots-expanding-darfur-arms-embargo-to-cover-drones-and-all-of-sudan
* [6] Security Council LIVE: War, hunger, flooding escalates in Sudan - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502148/
* [7] Ambush in South Sudan kills peacekeeping troops - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502891/
* [8] Two UN peacekeepers killed in South Sudan ambush - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787687485.216386/
* [9] Video: Thousands of families flee fighting in Sudan’s North Kordofan State - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787692975.900668/
* [10] ‘Takaya’ community kitchen closures threaten 50,000 families in Sudan capital - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688912.431424/
* [12] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [13] Affad 23 is an archaeological site located in the Affad region of southern Dongola Reach in northern Sudan, which hosts "the well-preserved remains of prehistoric camps (relics of the oldest open-air hut in the world) and diverse hunting and gathering loci some 50,000 years old". - 1787707505.895021
* [14] Background: Long referred to as Nubia, modern-day Sudan was the site of the Kingdom of Kerma (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.) until it was absorbed into the New Kingdom of Egypt. Background: By the 11th century B.C., the Kingdom of Kush gained independence from Egypt; it lasted in various forms until the middle of the 4th century A.D. - 1787695267.822394
* [15] By the eighth millennium BC, people of a Neolithic culture had settled into a sedentary way of life there in fortified mudbrick villages, where they supplemented hunting and fishing on the Nile with grain gathering and cattle herding. - 1787707505.895021
* [16] Background: After the fall of Kush, the Nubians formed three Christian kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria, and Alodia, with the latter two enduring until around 1500. - 1787695267.822394
* [17] Neolithic peoples created cemeteries such as R12. During the fifth millennium BC, migrations from the drying Sahara brought neolithic people into the Nile Valley along with agriculture. The population that resulted from this cultural and genetic mixing developed a social hierarchy over the next centuries which became the Kingdom of Kerma at 2500 BC. Anthropological and archaeological research indicates that during the predynastic period Nubia and Nagadan Upper Egypt were ethnically and culturally nearly identical, and thus, simultaneously evolved systems of pharaonic kingship by 3300 BC. The Kerma culture was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan. It flourished from around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in ancient Nubia. - 1787707505.895021
* [18] Chief of state: Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fattah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (since 11 November 2021) - 1787695267.822394
* [19] Location: north-eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea Area: 1,861,484 sq km Terrain: generally flat, featureless plain; desert dominates the north Natural resources: petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower - 1787695267.822394
* [20] Climate: hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November) - 1787695267.822394
* [21] Sudanese culture melds the behaviours, practices, and beliefs of about 578 ethnic groups, communicating in numerous different dialects and languages, in a region microcosmic of Africa, with geographic extremes varying from sandy desert to tropical forest. - 1787707505.895021
* [22] Ethnic groups: Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Ingessana, Uduk, Fallata, Masalit, Dajo, Gimir, Tunjur, Berti; there are over 500 ethnic groups - 1787695267.822394
* [23] Recent evidence suggests that while most citizens of the country identify strongly with both Sudan and their religion, Arab and African supranational identities are much more polarising and contested. - 1787707505.895021
* [24] Languages: Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur - 1787695267.822394
* [25] Sudan has a rich and unique musical culture that has been through chronic instability and repression during the modern history of Sudan. Beginning with the imposition of strict Salafi interpretation of sharia law in 1983, many of the country's most prominent poets and artists, like Mahjoub Sharif, were imprisoned while others, like Mohammed el Amin (returned to Sudan in the mid-1990s) and Mohammed Wardi (returned to Sudan 2003), fled to Cairo. - 1787707505.895021
* [26] Religions: Sunni Muslim, small Christian minority - 1787695267.822394
* [27] Traditional music suffered too, with traditional Zār ceremonies being interrupted and drums confiscated [1]. At the same time European militaries contributed to the development of Sudanese music by introducing new instruments and styles; military bands, especially the Scottish bagpipes, were renowned, and set traditional music to military march music. The march March Shulkawi No 1, is an example, set to the sounds of the Shilluk. Northern Sudan listens to different music than the rest of Sudan. - 1787707505.895021
* [28] Government type: presidential republic Capital: Khartoum Legal system: mixed system of Islamic law and English common law - 1787695267.822394
* [29] Population: 50,467,278 (2024 est.) - 1787695267.822394
* [30] In Sudan's 2008 census, the population of northern, western and eastern Sudan was recorded to be over 30 million. - 1787707505.895021
* [31] Median age: 19.5 years (2025 est.) - 1787695267.822394
* [32] The population of Sudan was estimated to be around 50 million in 2024. - 1787707505.895021
* [33] Urbanization: 36.3% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 6.344 million KHARTOUM (capital), 1.057 million Nyala (2023) - 1787695267.822394
* [34] This is a significant increase over the past four decades, as the 1983 census put the total population of Sudan, including present-day South Sudan, at 21.6 million. - 1787707505.895021
* [35] Life expectancy: 67.8 years (2024 est.) - 1787695267.822394
* [36] The population of Greater Khartoum (including Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North) is growing rapidly and was recorded to be 5.2 million. Aside from being a refugee-generating country, Sudan also hosts a large population of refugees from other countries. According to UNHCR statistics, more than 1.1 million refugees and asylum seekers lived in Sudan in August 2019. The majority of this population came from South Sudan (858,607 people), Eritrea (123,413), Syria (93,502), Ethiopia (14,201), the Central African Republic (11,713) and Chad (3,100). Apart from these, the UNHCR report 1,864,195 Internally displaced persons (IDP's). - 1787707505.895021
* [37] Branches: Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF): Ground Force (Sudanese Army), Sudanese Navy, Sudanese Air Force; Rapid Support Forces (RSF); Border Guards; Ministry of Interior: Sudan Police Forces (SPF), Central Reserve Police (CRP) (2025) Personnel: prior to the outbreak of fighting between the SAF and the RSF in 2023, size estimates for Sudan's armed forces varied widely: up to 200,000 SAF; up to 100,000 RSF; up to 80,000 Central Reserve Police (2023) Equipment: the SAF's inventory includes a mix of mostly Chinese, Russian/Soviet, and some domestically produced weapons systems; Sudan has a state-run defense industry, which mostly manufactures copies of foreign-supplied armaments, such as armored vehicles, under license (2025) - 1787695267.822394

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Russia

2026-08-26T02:40:56Z

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{{Infobox place|name=Russia|type=Place or actor|region=russia ukraine|rows=90|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:russia-flag.png|thumb|220px|Russia flag. (Peter the Great, Public domain)]][[File:russia-map.png|thumb|220px|Russia locator map. (Ssolbergj, CC BY 3.0)]]}}

'''Russia''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'. - reported by Meduza|latest=Meduza}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-26 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - Meduza: The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'.
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: A new drone was found in Romania after Russia's attack on Ukraine
* [3] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite
* [4] 2026-08-24 - Meduza: Russia struck Odesa. Telegram channels report that the "Epitsentr" hypermarket is on fire.
* [5] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Ukraine must be competitive with Russia in the number of drone strikes - Zelensky
* [6] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Russia to seize poorly protected infrastructure as Ukraine barrage persists
* [7] 2026-08-21 - Africanews: Kyiv residents search through the wreckage after Russia’s deadly barrage
* [8] 2026-08-14 - outlet not recorded: Russia dismisses idea of Black Sea ceasefire
* [9] 2026-07-03 - outlet not recorded: Russia’s triumphant tone shifts as Ukraine deploys ‘asymmetrical tactics’
* [10] 2026-06-29 - outlet not recorded: Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink
* [11] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* [12] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: Russia’s slow defeat – and Australia’s hard lesson
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy emerged from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and gradually conquered and absorbed surrounding principalities. [13]

The earliest evidence of human settlement in Russia dates to the Oldowan period during the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. [14]

In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. [15]

Flint tools, some 1.5 million years old, have been discovered in the North Caucasus. Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195–122,700 years ago. Fossils of Denny, an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, and lived some 90,000 years ago, was also found within the latter cave. Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at Kostyonki–Borshchyovo, and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years ago—both in western Russia. [16]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich [[Vladimir Putin|PUTIN]] (since 7 May 2012) Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich [[Mikhail Mishustin|MISHUSTIN]] (since 16 January 2020) [17]

=== Geography ===

Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean Area: 17,098,242 sq km Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber [18]

=== Climate ===

Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast [19]

=== Culture ===

Russian culture reflects a long, gradual, and complex amalgamation of various elements that coincided with centuries of development, expansion, and interaction with different peoples, artistic movements, and cultures. Russia has heavily influenced classical music, ballet, theatre, mathematics, sport, painting, and cinema. [20]

Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) [21]

Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European literature and thought. [22]

Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) [23]

Russia also made pioneering contributions to science, technology, and space exploration. [24]

Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) [25]

Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 21 of which are cultural, while 31 lie on the tentative list. The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry. The Russian Bear and Mother Russia are often used as national personifications of the country. [26]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential federation Capital: Moscow Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts [27]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) [28]

Russia had an estimated population of 146.0 million in 2025 (143.6 million excluding Crimea and Sevastopol), down from 147.2 million in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth-most populous country in the world. [29]

Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) [30]

With a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/mi2), Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries, with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part. [31]

Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) [32]

The country is highly urbanised, with two-thirds of the population living in urban areas. As of 2025, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.37 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world. [33]

Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) [34]

Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years. Russia's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis. In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration. [35]

=== Military ===

Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as [[Iran]] and North Korea to support its war on [[Ukraine]]; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) [36]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Russia|Timeline: Russia]] · [[Ukraine]]}}

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== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691593.267052/
* [2] A new drone was found in Romania after Russia's attack on Ukraine - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787680558.529847/
* [3] Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.228618/
* [4] Russia struck Odesa. Telegram channels report that the "Epitsentr" hypermarket is on fire. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619879/
* [5] Ukraine must be competitive with Russia in the number of drone strikes - Zelensky - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.185872/
* [6] Russia to seize poorly protected infrastructure as Ukraine barrage persists - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688388.715521/
* [7] Kyiv residents search through the wreckage after Russia’s deadly barrage - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688912.432327/
* [13] Background: Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy emerged from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and gradually conquered and absorbed surrounding principalities. - 1787695259.864763
* [14] The earliest evidence of human settlement in Russia dates to the Oldowan period during the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. - 1787707462.730062
* [15] Background: In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Background: Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. - 1787695259.864763
* [16] Flint tools, some 1.5 million years old, have been discovered in the North Caucasus. Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195–122,700 years ago. Fossils of Denny, an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, and lived some 90,000 years ago, was also found within the latter cave. Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at Kostyonki–Borshchyovo, and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years ago—both in western Russia. - 1787707462.730062
* [17] Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) - 1787695259.864763
* [18] Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean Area: 17,098,242 sq km Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber - 1787695259.864763
* [19] Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast - 1787695259.864763
* [20] Russian culture reflects a long, gradual, and complex amalgamation of various elements that coincided with centuries of development, expansion, and interaction with different peoples, artistic movements, and cultures. Russia has heavily influenced classical music, ballet, theatre, mathematics, sport, painting, and cinema. - 1787707462.730062
* [21] Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [22] Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European literature and thought. - 1787707462.730062
* [23] Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [24] Russia also made pioneering contributions to science, technology, and space exploration. - 1787707462.730062
* [25] Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [26] Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 21 of which are cultural, while 31 lie on the tentative list. The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry. The Russian Bear and Mother Russia are often used as national personifications of the country. - 1787707462.730062
* [27] Government type: semi-presidential federation Capital: Moscow Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts - 1787695259.864763
* [28] Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [29] Russia had an estimated population of 146.0 million in 2025 (143.6 million excluding Crimea and Sevastopol), down from 147.2 million in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth-most populous country in the world. - 1787707462.730062
* [30] Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) - 1787695259.864763
* [31] With a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/mi2), Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries, with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part. - 1787707462.730062
* [32] Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) - 1787695259.864763
* [33] The country is highly urbanised, with two-thirds of the population living in urban areas. As of 2025, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.37 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world. - 1787707462.730062
* [34] Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [35] Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years. Russia's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis. In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration. - 1787707462.730062
* [36] Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as Iran and North Korea to support its war on Ukraine; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) - 1787695259.864763

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:Conflicts]]

China

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{{Infobox place|name=China|type=Place or actor|region=indo pacific|rows=90|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:china-flag.png|thumb|220px|China flag. (Zeng Liansong, Public domain)]][[File:china-map.png|thumb|220px|China locator map. (Ssolbergj, CC BY-SA 4.0)]]}}

'''China''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action - reported by The Diplomat|latest=The Diplomat}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - The Diplomat: China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam
* [3] 2026-08-22 - The War Zone: China’s Next Aircraft Carrier Is Taking Shape
* [4] 2026-08-21 - The War Zone: China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization
* [5] 2026-08-21 - The Diplomat: Ahead of Xi Visit, US Designates American Held in China as ‘Wrongfully Detained’
* [6] 2026-08-21 - The Diplomat: After 9 Years, China Is Reopening Its Borders To Recycled Plastic
* [7] 2026-08-20 - The War Zone: Our Best Look At China’s New Y-15 Turboprop Airlifter
* [8] 2026-08-20 - The Diplomat: China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan
* [9] 2026-08-01 - outlet not recorded: China helps Iran chip away at US air superiority despite Xi’s no-arms pledge
* [10] 2026-07-22 - outlet not recorded: There is no ‘Middle East.’ There’s a Levant America loves and a Gulf China needs
* [11] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* [12] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

China's historical civilization dates to at least the 13th century B.C., first under the Shang (to 1046 B.C.) and then the Zhou (1046-221 B.C.) dynasties. [13]

Evidence of early humans such as Homo erectus in China dates to the Paleolithic, around 1.7 million years ago, with unconfirmed sites as old as 2 million years ago. [14]

The imperial era of China began in 221 B.C. under the Qin Dynasty and lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. [15]

Modern Homo sapiens are attested from around 50,000 years ago. [16]

During this period, China alternated between periods of unity and disunity under a succession of imperial dynasties. [17]

Following the end of the Last Glacial Period, in about 8,000 BCE, pottery-making Neolithic cultures emerged. By the 6000s BCE, sedentary agricultural societies had spread across the lower Yellow River basin. These societies became increasingly complex, urbanized, and stratified, but many experienced a population collapse in the late 2000s BCE for unclear reasons. After 2000 BCE, a Bronze Age culture emerged in the Central Plain, dubbed the Erlitou culture after its main site. Erlitou has been controversially identified with the Xia, the traditionally-accepted first dynasty, but no written records exist to confirm this. The Shang dynasty purportedly succeeded the Xia around 1600 BCE, with its early stages tentatively identified with an expansionist state known archaeologically as the Erligang culture. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President [[Xi Jinping|XI Jinping]] (since 14 March 2013) Head of government: Premier [[Li Qiang|LI Qiang]] (since 11 March 2023) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam Area: 9,596,960 sq km Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east Natural resources: coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, antimony, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest), arable land [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north [21]

=== Culture ===

Beginning in the Qin and Han dynasties and continuing over the following millennia, an area of Chinese cultural influence grew to encompass much of East Asia. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam adopted various political, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic concepts from China, boosted by their adoption of Chinese characters and participation within the tributary system. China has 60 World Heritage Sites, including the Great Wall and Grand Canal, the second-most of any country (behind Italy). [22]

Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.) [23]

Chinese culture has historically emphasized family connections, with filial piety and the veneration of ancestors seen as vital duties under Confucian ethics. [24]

Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet) [25]

Prior to the 20th century, family relations were highly patriarchal, and arranged marriages were commonplace. [26]

Religions: folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.1% (2021 est.) [27]

The CCP pushed for women's equality after coming to power, establishing the All-China Women's Federation to manage women's issues. However, many patriarchal gender norms remain prevalent, and women face lower employment rates and occupational gender segregation. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1912, China traditionally used a 12-month lunisolar calendar. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: communist party-led state Capital: Beijing Legal system: civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes [29]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 1,407,181,209 (2025 est.) [30]

The 2020 Chinese census recorded the population as approximately 1,411,778,724. About 17.95% were 14 years old or younger, 63.35% were between 15 and 59, and 18.7% were over 60. [31]

Median age: 40.8 years (2025 est.) [32]

Between 2010 and 2020, the average population growth rate was 0.53%. [33]

Urbanization: 64.6% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 29.211 million Shanghai, 21.766 million BEIJING (capital), 17.341 million Chongqing, 14.284 million Guangzhou, 14.239 million Tianjin, 13.073 million Shenzhen (2023) [34]

Since 2022, deaths have outpaced births. China has among the lowest total fertility rates (births per woman) in the world, around 1.0 as of 2025. [35]

Life expectancy: 78.7 years (2024 est.) [36]

China has a rapidly aging population: the proportion of Chinese over 65 is predicted to reach 26% by 2050, which would create a large economic and social burden from increased need for caretakers and medical assistance. [37]

Literacy: 96.7% (2020 est.) [38]

The National Bureau of Statistics estimated that the population fell 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, the first decline since 1961. In 2025, China recorded 7.92 million births, the lowest recorded birthrate since at least 1949. [39]

=== Military ===

Branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces or People's Liberation Army Army (PLAA), Navy (PLAN, includes Marine Corps (PLANMC)), Air Force (PLAAF), Rocket Force (PLARF), Aerospace Force (ASF), Cyberspace Force (CSF), Information Support Force (ISF), Joint Logistics Support Force (JLSF); People's Armed Police (PAP, includes Coast Guard, Border Defense Force, Internal Security Forces); PLA Reserve Force (2025) Expenditures: 1.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 2 million active-duty PLA (950,000-1 million Ground; 250,000 Navy, including about 50,000 Marines; 350-400,000 Air Force; 120,000 Rocket Forces; 150-175,000 other forces) (2025) Equipment: the PLA is mostly equipped with domestically produced armaments with smaller amounts of imported weaponry, largely from [[Russia]]; China has one of the world's largest defense-industrial sectors and is capable of producing advanced weapons systems across all military domains (2025) [40]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:China|Timeline: China]] · [[Ukraine]] · [[Taiwan]]}}

== Publication history ==
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* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 6 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +9 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-26 — +1 source(s)
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== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action - https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/chinas-three-anti-legal-framework-in-action/
* [2] Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.228541/
* [3] China’s Next Aircraft Carrier Is Taking Shape - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.18543/
* [4] China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619058/
* [5] Ahead of Xi Visit, US Designates American Held in China as ‘Wrongfully Detained’ - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619991/
* [6] After 9 Years, China Is Reopening Its Borders To Recycled Plastic - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502553/
* [7] Our Best Look At China’s New Y-15 Turboprop Airlifter - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.185217/
* [8] China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691299.924407/
* [13] Background: China's historical civilization dates to at least the 13th century B.C., first under the Shang (to 1046 B.C.) and then the Zhou (1046-221 B.C.) dynasties. - 1787695210.317043
* [14] Evidence of early humans such as Homo erectus in China dates to the Paleolithic, around 1.7 million years ago, with unconfirmed sites as old as 2 million years ago. - 1787707299.963839
* [15] Background: The imperial era of China began in 221 B.C. under the Qin Dynasty and lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. - 1787695210.317043
* [16] Modern Homo sapiens are attested from around 50,000 years ago. - 1787707299.963839
* [17] Background: During this period, China alternated between periods of unity and disunity under a succession of imperial dynasties. - 1787695210.317043
* [18] Following the end of the Last Glacial Period, in about 8,000 BCE, pottery-making Neolithic cultures emerged. By the 6000s BCE, sedentary agricultural societies had spread across the lower Yellow River basin. These societies became increasingly complex, urbanized, and stratified, but many experienced a population collapse in the late 2000s BCE for unclear reasons. After 2000 BCE, a Bronze Age culture emerged in the Central Plain, dubbed the Erlitou culture after its main site. Erlitou has been controversially identified with the Xia, the traditionally-accepted first dynasty, but no written records exist to confirm this. The Shang dynasty purportedly succeeded the Xia around 1600 BCE, with its early stages tentatively identified with an expansionist state known archaeologically as the Erligang culture. - 1787707299.963839
* [19] Chief of state: President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013) Head of government: Premier LI Qiang (since 11 March 2023) - 1787695210.317043
* [20] Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam Area: 9,596,960 sq km Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east Natural resources: coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, antimony, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest), arable land - 1787695210.317043
* [21] Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north - 1787695210.317043
* [22] Beginning in the Qin and Han dynasties and continuing over the following millennia, an area of Chinese cultural influence grew to encompass much of East Asia. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam adopted various political, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic concepts from China, boosted by their adoption of Chinese characters and participation within the tributary system. China has 60 World Heritage Sites, including the Great Wall and Grand Canal, the second-most of any country (behind Italy). - 1787707299.963839
* [23] Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [24] Chinese culture has historically emphasized family connections, with filial piety and the veneration of ancestors seen as vital duties under Confucian ethics. - 1787707299.963839
* [25] Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet) - 1787695210.317043
* [26] Prior to the 20th century, family relations were highly patriarchal, and arranged marriages were commonplace. - 1787707299.963839
* [27] Religions: folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.1% (2021 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [28] The CCP pushed for women's equality after coming to power, establishing the All-China Women's Federation to manage women's issues. However, many patriarchal gender norms remain prevalent, and women face lower employment rates and occupational gender segregation. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1912, China traditionally used a 12-month lunisolar calendar. - 1787707299.963839
* [29] Government type: communist party-led state Capital: Beijing Legal system: civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes - 1787695210.317043
* [30] Population: 1,407,181,209 (2025 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [31] The 2020 Chinese census recorded the population as approximately 1,411,778,724. About 17.95% were 14 years old or younger, 63.35% were between 15 and 59, and 18.7% were over 60. - 1787707299.963839
* [32] Median age: 40.8 years (2025 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [33] Between 2010 and 2020, the average population growth rate was 0.53%. - 1787707299.963839
* [34] Urbanization: 64.6% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 29.211 million Shanghai, 21.766 million BEIJING (capital), 17.341 million Chongqing, 14.284 million Guangzhou, 14.239 million Tianjin, 13.073 million Shenzhen (2023) - 1787695210.317043
* [35] Since 2022, deaths have outpaced births. China has among the lowest total fertility rates (births per woman) in the world, around 1.0 as of 2025. - 1787707299.963839
* [36] Life expectancy: 78.7 years (2024 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [37] China has a rapidly aging population: the proportion of Chinese over 65 is predicted to reach 26% by 2050, which would create a large economic and social burden from increased need for caretakers and medical assistance. - 1787707299.963839
* [38] Literacy: 96.7% (2020 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [39] The National Bureau of Statistics estimated that the population fell 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, the first decline since 1961. In 2025, China recorded 7.92 million births, the lowest recorded birthrate since at least 1949. - 1787707299.963839
* [40] Branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces or People's Liberation Army Army (PLAA), Navy (PLAN, includes Marine Corps (PLANMC)), Air Force (PLAAF), Rocket Force (PLARF), Aerospace Force (ASF), Cyberspace Force (CSF), Information Support Force (ISF), Joint Logistics Support Force (JLSF); People's Armed Police (PAP, includes Coast Guard, Border Defense Force, Internal Security Forces); PLA Reserve Force (2025) Expenditures: 1.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 2 million active-duty PLA (950,000-1 million Ground; 250,000 Navy, including about 50,000 Marines; 350-400,000 Air Force; 120,000 Rocket Forces; 150-175,000 other forces) (2025) Equipment: the PLA is mostly equipped with domestically produced armaments with smaller amounts of imported weaponry, largely from Russia; China has one of the world's largest defense-industrial sectors and is capable of producing advanced weapons systems across all military domains (2025) - 1787695210.317043

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Pakistan

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'''Pakistan''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-24|summary=Most recent archived item: Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran - reported by IRNA, Iranian state|latest=IRNA, Iranian state}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-24}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-24 - IRNA, Iranian state: Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran
* [2] 2026-08-23 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: Iran says Pakistan's army chief to visit Tehran on Monday
* [3] 2026-08-21 - mfa.gov.tr: Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of Türkiye , Algeria , Indonesia , Jordan , Lebanon , Malaysia , Mauritania , Pakistan , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and Somalia , 21 August 2026 / Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* [4] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Pakistan, 11 Muslim nations urge global action to halt Israeli strikes on Syria
* [5] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Syria discuss bilateral ties, regional and global developments
* [6] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [7] 2026-08-15 - star.com.tr: Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals.
* [8] 2026-08-12 - outlet not recorded: U.S. and Iran close to a "peace arrangement or a deal," Pakistan says
* [9] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-11 - jns.org: Pakistan , India , and Israel expanding eastern front
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 79 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world and dating back at least 5,000 years, spread over much of modern-day Pakistan. [13]

Some of the earliest ancient human civilisations in South Asia originated from areas encompassing present-day Pakistan. [14]

During the second millennium B.C., remnants of this culture fused with the migrating Indo-Aryan peoples. [15]

The earliest known stone tools in the region, dating to the Lower Palaeolithic (~2 million years ago), were discovered in the Soan Valley of northern Pakistan. [16]

The area underwent successive invasions in subsequent centuries from the Persians, Greeks, Scythians, Arabs (who brought Islam), Afghans, and Turks. [17]

The Indus plain region, which covers most of the present-day Pakistan, was the site of several successive ancient cultures including the Neolithic (7000–4300 BCE) site of Mehrgarh, and the 5,000-year history of urban life in South Asia to the various sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation, including Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Following the decline of the Indus Valley Civilisation, semi-nomadic Indo-European Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent around 2000 BCE, perhaps by way of the Khyber Pass. They fused with the indigenous Harappan culture of the Indus Valley, and elements of the pre-Aryan spiritual traditions were assimilated into the developing Vedic tradition. This cultural milieu shaped the Gandhara Civilisation, which flourished at the crossroads of India, Central Asia, and the Middle East, connecting trade routes and absorbing cultural influences from diverse civilisations. By the early Vedic period, parts of the Indus region in present-day Pakistan were populated by numerous tribes that were beginning to coalesce into chieftain-led clans and early kingdoms. During this period, the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President [[Asif Ali Zardari|Asif Ali ZARDARI]] (since 10 March 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad [[Shehbaz Sharif|Shehbaz SHARIF]] (since 3 March 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and [[Iran]] and Afghanistan on the west and [[China]] in the north Area: 796,095 sq km Terrain: divided into three major geographic areas: the northern highlands, the Indus River plain in the center and east, and the Balochistan Plateau in the south and west Natural resources: arable land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north [21]

=== Culture ===

Civil society in Pakistan is hierarchical, emphasising local cultural etiquette and traditional Islamic values. The primary family unit is the extended family, but there's a rising trend towards nuclear families due to socio-economic factors. Both men and women typically wear Shalwar Kameez; men also favour trousers, jeans, and shirts. [22]

Ethnic groups: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Baloch 3.6%, other 6.3% Languages: Punjabi 38.8%, Pashto (alternate name, Pashtu) 18.2%, Sindhi 14.6%, Saraiki (a Punjabi variant) 12.2%, Urdu 7.1%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2.4%, Brahui 1.2%, other 2.4% [23]

The middle class has grown to about 35 million, with another 17 million in the upper and upper-middle classes, leading to a shift in power from rural landowners to urban elites. Festivals like Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Azha, Ramadan, Christmas, Easter, Holi, and Diwali are primarily religious. [24]

Religions: Muslim 96.4%, Hindu 1.6%, Christian 1.4%; less than 1%: scheduled castes, Qadiani/Ahmadi, other, Sikh. [25]

Pakistan ranked 56th on the 2006 A.T. [26]

Religions: (2020 est.) [27]

Kearney/FP Globalization Index due to increasing globalisation. Four periods define Pakistani architecture: pre-Islamic, Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: federal parliamentary republic Capital: Islamabad Legal system: common law system with Islamic law influence [29]

=== Demographics ===

Since independence due to the partition of India, urbanisation has surged for various reasons. In the south, Karachi stands as the most populous commercial hub along the Indus River. [30]

Population: 257,047,044 (2025 est.) [31]

In the east, west, and north, a dense population arc spans cities like Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Jhelum, Sheikhupura, Nowshera, Mardan, and Peshawar. [32]

Median age: 23.2 years (2025 est.) [33]

By 1990–2008, city dwellers constituted 36% of Pakistan's population, making it South Asia's most urbanised nation, with over 50% living in towns of 5,000+ inhabitants. [34]

Urbanization: 38% of total population (2023) [35]

Immigration, both domestic and international, significantly fuels urban growth. [36]

Major urban areas: 17.236 million Karachi, 13.979 million Lahore, 3.711 million Faisalabad, 2.415 million Gujranwala, 2.412 million Peshawar, 1.232 million ISLAMABAD (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 70.3 years (2024 est.) [37]

Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis, and from nearby countries, accelerates urbanisation, posing new political and socio-economic challenges. Economic shifts like the green revolution and political developments also play crucial roles. [38]

Literacy: 58.9% (2021 est.) [39]

Pakistan is a diverse society with estimates suggesting it has between 75 and 85 languages. [40]

=== Military ===

Branches: Pakistan Armed Forces: Pakistan Army (includes National Guard), Pakistan Navy (includes Pakistan Marines, Pakistan Maritime Security Agency), Pakistan Air Force; Ministry of Interior: Frontier Constabulary, Frontier Corps, National Police, Pakistan Coast Guard, Punjab (Pakistan) Rangers, Sindh (Pakistan) Rangers (2025) Expenditures: 2.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 650,000 active Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of mostly imported and some domestically produced armaments; the majority of its imported weapons are from [[China]]; other suppliers include France, [[Russia]], Türkiye, [[Ukraine]], the UK, and the US; Pakistan also has a domestic defense industry, which produces or co-produces such items as armored vehicles, aircraft, missiles, naval vessels (2025) [41]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Pakistan|Timeline: Pakistan]] · [[Iran]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 9 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +7 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787686101.586531/
* [2] Iran says Pakistan's army chief to visit Tehran on Monday - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502771/
* [3] Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of Türkiye , Algeria , Indonesia , Jordan , Lebanon , Malaysia , Mauritania , Pakistan , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and Somalia , 21 August 2026 / Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.22906/
* [7] Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229412/
* [11] Pakistan , India , and Israel expanding eastern front - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229004/
* [13] Background: The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world and dating back at least 5,000 years, spread over much of modern-day Pakistan. - 1787695250.244135
* [14] Some of the earliest ancient human civilisations in South Asia originated from areas encompassing present-day Pakistan. - 1787707422.231362
* [15] Background: During the second millennium B.C., remnants of this culture fused with the migrating Indo-Aryan peoples. - 1787695250.244135
* [16] The earliest known stone tools in the region, dating to the Lower Palaeolithic (~2 million years ago), were discovered in the Soan Valley of northern Pakistan. - 1787707422.231362
* [17] Background: The area underwent successive invasions in subsequent centuries from the Persians, Greeks, Scythians, Arabs (who brought Islam), Afghans, and Turks. - 1787695250.244135
* [18] The Indus plain region, which covers most of the present-day Pakistan, was the site of several successive ancient cultures including the Neolithic (7000–4300 BCE) site of Mehrgarh, and the 5,000-year history of urban life in South Asia to the various sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation, including Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Following the decline of the Indus Valley Civilisation, semi-nomadic Indo-European Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent around 2000 BCE, perhaps by way of the Khyber Pass. They fused with the indigenous Harappan culture of the Indus Valley, and elements of the pre-Aryan spiritual traditions were assimilated into the developing Vedic tradition. This cultural milieu shaped the Gandhara Civilisation, which flourished at the crossroads of India, Central Asia, and the Middle East, connecting trade routes and absorbing cultural influences from diverse civilisations. By the early Vedic period, parts of the Indus region in present-day Pakistan were populated by numerous tribes that were beginning to coalesce into chieftain-led clans and early kingdoms. During this period, the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed. - 1787707422.231362
* [19] Chief of state: President Asif Ali ZARDARI (since 10 March 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz SHARIF (since 3 March 2024) - 1787695250.244135
* [20] Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north Area: 796,095 sq km Terrain: divided into three major geographic areas: the northern highlands, the Indus River plain in the center and east, and the Balochistan Plateau in the south and west Natural resources: arable land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone - 1787695250.244135
* [21] Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north - 1787695250.244135
* [22] Civil society in Pakistan is hierarchical, emphasising local cultural etiquette and traditional Islamic values. The primary family unit is the extended family, but there's a rising trend towards nuclear families due to socio-economic factors. Both men and women typically wear Shalwar Kameez; men also favour trousers, jeans, and shirts. - 1787707422.231362
* [23] Ethnic groups: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Baloch 3.6%, other 6.3% Languages: Punjabi 38.8%, Pashto (alternate name, Pashtu) 18.2%, Sindhi 14.6%, Saraiki (a Punjabi variant) 12.2%, Urdu 7.1%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2.4%, Brahui 1.2%, other 2.4% - 1787695250.244135
* [24] The middle class has grown to about 35 million, with another 17 million in the upper and upper-middle classes, leading to a shift in power from rural landowners to urban elites. Festivals like Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Azha, Ramadan, Christmas, Easter, Holi, and Diwali are primarily religious. - 1787707422.231362
* [25] Religions: Muslim 96.4%, Hindu 1.6%, Christian 1.4%; less than 1%: scheduled castes, Qadiani/Ahmadi, other, Sikh. - 1787695250.244135
* [26] Pakistan ranked 56th on the 2006 A.T. - 1787707422.231362
* [27] Religions: (2020 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [28] Kearney/FP Globalization Index due to increasing globalisation. Four periods define Pakistani architecture: pre-Islamic, Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial. - 1787707422.231362
* [29] Government type: federal parliamentary republic Capital: Islamabad Legal system: common law system with Islamic law influence - 1787695250.244135
* [30] Since independence due to the partition of India, urbanisation has surged for various reasons. In the south, Karachi stands as the most populous commercial hub along the Indus River. - 1787707422.231362
* [31] Population: 257,047,044 (2025 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [32] In the east, west, and north, a dense population arc spans cities like Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Jhelum, Sheikhupura, Nowshera, Mardan, and Peshawar. - 1787707422.231362
* [33] Median age: 23.2 years (2025 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [34] By 1990–2008, city dwellers constituted 36% of Pakistan's population, making it South Asia's most urbanised nation, with over 50% living in towns of 5,000+ inhabitants. - 1787707422.231362
* [35] Urbanization: 38% of total population (2023) - 1787695250.244135
* [36] Immigration, both domestic and international, significantly fuels urban growth. - 1787707422.231362
* [37] Major urban areas: 17.236 million Karachi, 13.979 million Lahore, 3.711 million Faisalabad, 2.415 million Gujranwala, 2.412 million Peshawar, 1.232 million ISLAMABAD (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 70.3 years (2024 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [38] Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis, and from nearby countries, accelerates urbanisation, posing new political and socio-economic challenges. Economic shifts like the green revolution and political developments also play crucial roles. - 1787707422.231362
* [39] Literacy: 58.9% (2021 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [40] Pakistan is a diverse society with estimates suggesting it has between 75 and 85 languages. - 1787707422.231362
* [41] Branches: Pakistan Armed Forces: Pakistan Army (includes National Guard), Pakistan Navy (includes Pakistan Marines, Pakistan Maritime Security Agency), Pakistan Air Force; Ministry of Interior: Frontier Constabulary, Frontier Corps, National Police, Pakistan Coast Guard, Punjab (Pakistan) Rangers, Sindh (Pakistan) Rangers (2025) Expenditures: 2.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 650,000 active Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of mostly imported and some domestically produced armaments; the majority of its imported weapons are from China; other suppliers include France, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine, the UK, and the US; Pakistan also has a domestic defense industry, which produces or co-produces such items as armored vehicles, aircraft, missiles, naval vessels (2025) - 1787695250.244135

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Syria

2026-08-26T02:40:54Z

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{{Hatnote|text=This page covers Syria as the archive records it. Related and overlapping: [[Gaza]] and [[Israel, Palestine and Syria]].}}

{{Infobox place|name=Syria|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=89|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:syria-flag.png|thumb|220px|Syria flag. (Modification by AnonMoos of PD image File:Flag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963).svg (previous non-vector versions were by Coup de crayon 2011), Public domain)]][[File:syria-map.png|thumb|220px|Syria locator map. (L'Américain, CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Syria''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Head of Kurdish forces in Syria announces their dissolution - reported by Middle East Eye|latest=Middle East Eye}}

{{Coverage note|rows=14|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

=== Intl ===
* [1] 2026-08-20 - Long War Journal: Israel strikes military airbase in Syria while warning Turkey

=== Israel ===
* [2] 2026-08-23 - Jerusalem Post: Mossad chief, Syria FM hold positive de-escalation talks after Israeli airbase strike, source says

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Head of Kurdish forces in Syria announces their dissolution
* [4] 2026-08-24 - US State Department: Rescission of Syria’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
* [5] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Netanyahu's office: Syria risked status quo
* [6] 2026-08-04 - kikar.co.il: 12 km from Israel: Grad missile arsenal revealed in Syria
* [7] 2026-07-25 - outlet not recorded: UN chief says situation in Syria's Golan area 'unacceptable'
* [8] 2026-07-09 - outlet not recorded: Is Syria stable enough to engage with the world?
* [9] 2026-07-06 - outlet not recorded: Syria’s New Parliament: Networks of War, Politics of Appointment, and the Illusion of Representation
* [10] 2026-07-03 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon Back on Syria’s Agenda - Al-Akhbar English
* [11] 2026-07-02 - outlet not recorded: Diplomatic Shifts: Syria and Hezbollah's Possible Engagement
* [12] 2026-07-02 - outlet not recorded: Syria appoints new parliament as Israel tensions continue
* [13] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: “Dear Syria … ”
* [14] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* ...and 75 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

After World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]]. [15]

The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary around the 11th millennium BC and became one of the centers of Neolithic culture (known as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), where agriculture and cattle breeding first began to appear. [16]

The French administered the area until granting it independence in 1946. [17]

The site of Tell Qaramel has several round stone towers dated to 10650 BC, making them the oldest structures of this kind in the world. [18]

The new country lacked political stability and experienced a series of military coups. [19]

The Neolithic period (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is represented by rectangular houses of Mureybet culture. At the time, people used containers made of stone, gyps, and burnt lime (Vaisselle blanche). The discovery of obsidian tools from Anatolia are evidence of early trade. The ancient cities of Hamoukar and Emar played an important role during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] was one of the most ancient on earth, perhaps preceded by only that of Mesopotamia. The earliest recorded indigenous civilization in the region was the Kingdom of Ebla near present-day Idlib, northern Syria. [20]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: [[Ahmad al-Shara]]'; former President Bashar al-[[Bashar al-Assad|ASAD]] was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024 Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad al-BASHIR (since 8 December 2024) [21]

=== Geography ===

Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between [[Lebanon]] and [[Turkey]] Area: 187,437 sq km Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower [22]

=== Climate ===

Climate: mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus [23]

=== Culture ===

[[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] is a traditional society with a long cultural history. Importance is placed on family, religion, education, self-discipline and respect. [24]

Ethnic groups: Arab ~50%, Alawite ~15%, Kurd ~10%, Levantine ~10%, other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian) [25]

Syrians' taste for the traditional arts is expressed in dances such as the al-Samah, the Dabkeh in all their variations, and the sword dance. [26]

Languages: Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, French, English [27]

Marriage ceremonies and the births of children are occasions for the lively demonstration of folk customs. [28]

Religions: Muslim 87% (official; includes Sunni 74% and Alawi, Ismaili, and Shia 13%), Christian 10% (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian), Druze 3% [29]

Syrian cuisine is rich and varied in its ingredients, linked to the regions where a specific dish has originated. Syrian food mostly consists of southern Mediterranean, Greek, and Southwest Asian dishes. Some Syrian dishes also evolved from Turkish and French cooking: dishes like shish kebab, stuffed zucchini/courgette, and yabraʾ (stuffed grape leaves, the word yabraʾ deriving from the Turkish word yaprak, meaning leaf). The main dishes are kibbeh, hummus, tabbouleh, fattoush, labneh, shawarma, mujaddara, shanklish, pastırma, sujuk and baklava. [30]

=== Government ===

Government type: transitional presidential republic Capital: Damascus Legal system: mixed system of civil and Islamic (sharia) law (for family courts) [31]

=== Demographics ===

Most people live in the Euphrates River valley and along the coastal plain, a fertile strip between the coastal mountains and the desert. [32]

Population: 24,261,882 (2025 est.) Median age: 24.5 years (2025 est.) [33]

Overall population density before the civil war was about 99 per square kilometre (258 per square mile). According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U.S. [34]

Urbanization: 57.4% of total population (2023) [35]

Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] hosted a population of refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 1,852,300. [36]

Major urban areas: 2.585 million DAMASCUS (capital), 2.203 million Aleppo, 1.443 million Hims (Homs), 996,000 Hamah (2023) Life expectancy: 74.8 years (2024 est.) [37]

The vast majority of this population was from Iraq (1,300,000), but sizeable populations from Palestine (543,400) and Somalia (5,200) also lived in the country. In what the UN has described as "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era", by 2014 about 9.5 million Syrians, half the population, had been displaced since March 2011; 4 million were outside the country as refugees. [38]

Literacy: 94.4% (2021 est.) [39]

By 2020, the UN estimated that over 5.5 million Syrians were living as refugees in the region, and 6.1 million others were internally displaced. Syrians are an overall indigenous Levantine people, closely related to their immediate neighbors, such as Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians and Jews. [40]

=== Military ===

Branches: the interim government authorities in [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] have established a Ministry of Defense and are attempting to unify the dozens of armed factions operating in Syria under a single, state-linked army; it has also established a Ministry of Interior to manage police and other security forces (2025) Personnel: not available Equipment: the military forces of Syria are equipped with Russian and Soviet-era armaments (2025) [41]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Syria|Timeline: Syria]] · [[Turkey]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 11 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — sources changed (11 → 0)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — +14 source(s), Intl, Israel added
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
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== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Israel strikes military airbase in Syria while warning Turkey - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653124.744552/
* [2] Mossad chief, Syria FM hold positive de-escalation talks after Israeli airbase strike, source says - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653124.744441/
* [3] Head of Kurdish forces in Syria announces their dissolution - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/head-kurdish-forces-syria-announces-their-dissolution
* [4] Rescission of Syria’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653124.744685/
* [6] 12 km from Israel: Grad missile arsenal revealed in Syria - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653856.551351/
* [15] Background: After World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. - 1787695277.227722
* [16] The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary around the 11th millennium BC and became one of the centers of Neolithic culture (known as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), where agriculture and cattle breeding first began to appear. - 1787707535.19268
* [17] Background: The French administered the area until granting it independence in 1946. - 1787695277.227722
* [18] The site of Tell Qaramel has several round stone towers dated to 10650 BC, making them the oldest structures of this kind in the world. - 1787707535.19268
* [19] Background: The new country lacked political stability and experienced a series of military coups. - 1787695277.227722
* [20] The Neolithic period (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is represented by rectangular houses of Mureybet culture. At the time, people used containers made of stone, gyps, and burnt lime (Vaisselle blanche). The discovery of obsidian tools from Anatolia are evidence of early trade. The ancient cities of Hamoukar and Emar played an important role during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in Syria was one of the most ancient on earth, perhaps preceded by only that of Mesopotamia. The earliest recorded indigenous civilization in the region was the Kingdom of Ebla near present-day Idlib, northern Syria. - 1787707535.19268
* [21] Chief of state: Ahmad al-Shara'; former President Bashar al-ASAD was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024 Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad al-BASHIR (since 8 December 2024) - 1787695277.227722
* [22] Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey Area: 187,437 sq km Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower - 1787695277.227722
* [23] Climate: mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus - 1787695277.227722
* [24] Syria is a traditional society with a long cultural history. Importance is placed on family, religion, education, self-discipline and respect. - 1787707535.19268
* [25] Ethnic groups: Arab ~50%, Alawite ~15%, Kurd ~10%, Levantine ~10%, other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian) - 1787695277.227722
* [26] Syrians' taste for the traditional arts is expressed in dances such as the al-Samah, the Dabkeh in all their variations, and the sword dance. - 1787707535.19268
* [27] Languages: Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, French, English - 1787695277.227722
* [28] Marriage ceremonies and the births of children are occasions for the lively demonstration of folk customs. - 1787707535.19268
* [29] Religions: Muslim 87% (official; includes Sunni 74% and Alawi, Ismaili, and Shia 13%), Christian 10% (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian), Druze 3% - 1787695277.227722
* [30] Syrian cuisine is rich and varied in its ingredients, linked to the regions where a specific dish has originated. Syrian food mostly consists of southern Mediterranean, Greek, and Southwest Asian dishes. Some Syrian dishes also evolved from Turkish and French cooking: dishes like shish kebab, stuffed zucchini/courgette, and yabraʾ (stuffed grape leaves, the word yabraʾ deriving from the Turkish word yaprak, meaning leaf). The main dishes are kibbeh, hummus, tabbouleh, fattoush, labneh, shawarma, mujaddara, shanklish, pastırma, sujuk and baklava. - 1787707535.19268
* [31] Government type: transitional presidential republic Capital: Damascus Legal system: mixed system of civil and Islamic (sharia) law (for family courts) - 1787695277.227722
* [32] Most people live in the Euphrates River valley and along the coastal plain, a fertile strip between the coastal mountains and the desert. - 1787707535.19268
* [33] Population: 24,261,882 (2025 est.) Median age: 24.5 years (2025 est.) - 1787695277.227722
* [34] Overall population density before the civil war was about 99 per square kilometre (258 per square mile). According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U.S. - 1787707535.19268
* [35] Urbanization: 57.4% of total population (2023) - 1787695277.227722
* [36] Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Syria hosted a population of refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 1,852,300. - 1787707535.19268
* [37] Major urban areas: 2.585 million DAMASCUS (capital), 2.203 million Aleppo, 1.443 million Hims (Homs), 996,000 Hamah (2023) Life expectancy: 74.8 years (2024 est.) - 1787695277.227722
* [38] The vast majority of this population was from Iraq (1,300,000), but sizeable populations from Palestine (543,400) and Somalia (5,200) also lived in the country. In what the UN has described as "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era", by 2014 about 9.5 million Syrians, half the population, had been displaced since March 2011; 4 million were outside the country as refugees. - 1787707535.19268
* [39] Literacy: 94.4% (2021 est.) - 1787695277.227722
* [40] By 2020, the UN estimated that over 5.5 million Syrians were living as refugees in the region, and 6.1 million others were internally displaced. Syrians are an overall indigenous Levantine people, closely related to their immediate neighbors, such as Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians and Jews. - 1787707535.19268
* [41] Branches: the interim government authorities in Syria have established a Ministry of Defense and are attempting to unify the dozens of armed factions operating in Syria under a single, state-linked army; it has also established a Ministry of Interior to manage police and other security forces (2025) Personnel: not available Equipment: the military forces of Syria are equipped with Russian and Soviet-era armaments (2025) - 1787695277.227722

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background sources: CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:Conflicts]]

Yemen

2026-08-26T02:40:53Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, 0 provenance group(s), 2026-02-27..2026-08-24

{{Infobox place|name=Yemen|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=89|asof=2026-08-24|image=[[File:yemen-flag.png|thumb|220px|Yemen flag. (Nightstallion et al., see File history below for details., Public domain)]][[File:yemen-map.png|thumb|220px|Yemen locator map. (L'Américain, Public domain)]]}}

'''Yemen''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-24|summary=Most recent archived item: Yemen’s Houthis report attack on Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea - reported by Al Jazeera|latest=Al Jazeera}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-24}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Yemen’s Houthis report attack on Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Middle East Monitor: Yemen’s Houthis claim strikes on Saudi oil tanker, troop concentrations
* [3] 2026-08-23 - Middle East Eye: Yemen, US officials meet to discuss ‘countering Houthi propaganda’
* [4] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [5] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [6] 2026-08-15 - star.com.tr: Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals.
* [7] 2026-07-27 - hispantv.com: Humanitarian crisis hits 120,000 cancer patients in Yemen - News at 22:30.
* [8] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [9] 2026-07-23 - outlet not recorded: Yemen Houthis claim strikes on Saudi oil tankers
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 77 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

The Kingdom of Yemen (colloquially known as North Yemen) became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and in 1962 became the Yemen Arab Republic. [13]

With its long sea border between eastern and western civilizations, Yemen has long existed at a crossroads of cultures with a strategic location in terms of trade on the west of the Arabian Peninsula. [14]

The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became the People's Republic of Southern Yemen (colloquially known as South Yemen). [15]

Large settlements existed in the mountains of northern Yemen since 5000 BC. [16]

Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation and changed the country's name to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. [17]

The four major kingdoms in South Arabia were Saba, Hadhramaut, Qataban, and Ma'in. Sabaʾ (Arabic: سَـبَـأ) is thought to be biblical Sheba and was the most prominent federation. Sabaean rulers adopted a title generally thought to mean unifier, as the role of the Mukarrib was to bring the various tribes under their kingdom. Saba built the Great Dam of Marib around 940 BC. By the third century BC, Qataban, Hadhramaut, and Ma'in became independent from Saba. Ma'in stretched to Dedan, with their capital at Baraqish. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: Presidential Leadership Council Chairperson Dr. Chief of state: Rashad Muhammad [[Rashad al-Alimi|al-ALIMI]] (since 19 April 2022) Head of government: Prime Minister Salim Salih BIN BURAYK (since 9 May 2025) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia Area: 527,968 sq km Terrain: narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula Natural resources: petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east [21]

=== Culture ===

Yemeni theatre dates to the early 20th century. Both amateur and professional (government-sponsored) theatre troupes perform in the country's major urban centres. Many significant poets and authors, like Ali Ahmed Ba Kathir, Muhammad al-Sharafi, and Wajdi al-Ahdal, have written dramatic works; poems, novels, and short stories by Yemeni authors like Mohammad Abdul-Wali and Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh have also been adapted for the stage. [22]

Ethnic groups: predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asian, European [23]

There have been Yemeni productions of plays by Arab authors such as Tawfiq al-Hakim and Saadallah Wannous and by Western authors, including Shakespeare, Pirandello, Brecht, and Tennessee Williams. Historically speaking, Aden is the cradle of Yemeni theatre; in recent decades Sanaa has hosted numerous theatre festivals, often in conjunction with World Theatre Day. [24]

Languages: Arabic (official) [25]

Radio broadcasting in Yemen began in the 1940s. [26]

Religions: Muslim 99.1% (official; virtually all are citizens, an estimated 65% are Sunni and 35% are Shia), other 0.9% (includes Jewish, Baha'i, Hindu, and Christian; many are refugees or temporary foreign residents) (2020 est.) [27]

After unification in 1990, the government reformed its corporations and founded some additional radio stations that broadcast locally. However, it drew back after 1994, due to destroyed infrastructure resulting from the 1994 civil war. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: in transition Capital: Sanaa Legal system: mixed system of Islamic (sharia) law, Napoleonic law, English common law, and customary law [29]

=== Demographics ===

Yemen's population is 33 million by 2021 estimates, with 46% of the population being under 15 years old and 2.7% above 65 years. In 1950, it was 4.3 million. [30]

Population: 34,505,496 (2025 est.) [31]

By 2050, the population is estimated to increase to about 60 million. [32]

Median age: 20.5 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 39.8% of total population (2023) [33]

Yemen has a high total fertility rate, at 4.45 children per woman. [34]

Major urban areas: 3.292 million SANAA (capital), 1.080 million Aden, 941,000 Taiz, 772,000 Ibb (2023) [35]

Sanaa's population has increased rapidly, from roughly 55,000 in 1978 to nearly 1 million in the early 21st century. [36]

Life expectancy: 68.2 years (2024 est.) [37]

When the states of North and South Yemen were established, most minority groups departed. Yemen is a largely tribal society. There are also hereditary caste groups in urban areas such as the Akhdam. [38]

=== Military ===

Branches: Yemeni Armed Forces: Yemeni National Army, Air Force and Air Defense, Navy and Coastal Defense Forces, Border Guard, Strategic Reserve Forces (includes Special Forces and Presidential Protection Brigades, which are under the Ministry of Defense but responsible to the president), Popular Committee Forces (aka Popular Resistance Forces; government-backed tribal militia); Ministry of Interior: Security Forces, Emergency Forces, Counterterrorism Units (2025) Personnel: not available Equipment: the Yemeni Government forces have an inventory consisting primarily of older foreign-supplied weapons systems, mostly of Russian or Soviet origin (2025) [39]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Yemen|Timeline: Yemen]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 7 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +8 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Yemen’s Houthis report attack on Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653664.428478/
* [2] Yemen’s Houthis claim strikes on Saudi oil tanker, troop concentrations - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229299/
* [3] Yemen, US officials meet to discuss ‘countering Houthi propaganda’ - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229173/
* [5] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229412/
* [7] Humanitarian crisis hits 120,000 cancer patients in Yemen - News at 22:30. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.228895/
* [13] Background: The Kingdom of Yemen (colloquially known as North Yemen) became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and in 1962 became the Yemen Arab Republic. - 1787695314.888044
* [14] With its long sea border between eastern and western civilizations, Yemen has long existed at a crossroads of cultures with a strategic location in terms of trade on the west of the Arabian Peninsula. - 1787707676.693643
* [15] Background: The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became the People's Republic of Southern Yemen (colloquially known as South Yemen). - 1787695314.888044
* [16] Large settlements existed in the mountains of northern Yemen since 5000 BC. - 1787707676.693643
* [17] Background: Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation and changed the country's name to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. - 1787695314.888044
* [18] The four major kingdoms in South Arabia were Saba, Hadhramaut, Qataban, and Ma'in. Sabaʾ (Arabic: سَـبَـأ) is thought to be biblical Sheba and was the most prominent federation. Sabaean rulers adopted a title generally thought to mean unifier, as the role of the Mukarrib was to bring the various tribes under their kingdom. Saba built the Great Dam of Marib around 940 BC. By the third century BC, Qataban, Hadhramaut, and Ma'in became independent from Saba. Ma'in stretched to Dedan, with their capital at Baraqish. - 1787707676.693643
* [19] Chief of state: Presidential Leadership Council Chairperson Dr. Chief of state: Rashad Muhammad al-ALIMI (since 19 April 2022) Head of government: Prime Minister Salim Salih BIN BURAYK (since 9 May 2025) - 1787695314.888044
* [20] Location: Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia Area: 527,968 sq km Terrain: narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula Natural resources: petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west - 1787695314.888044
* [21] Climate: mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east - 1787695314.888044
* [22] Yemeni theatre dates to the early 20th century. Both amateur and professional (government-sponsored) theatre troupes perform in the country's major urban centres. Many significant poets and authors, like Ali Ahmed Ba Kathir, Muhammad al-Sharafi, and Wajdi al-Ahdal, have written dramatic works; poems, novels, and short stories by Yemeni authors like Mohammad Abdul-Wali and Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh have also been adapted for the stage. - 1787707676.693643
* [23] Ethnic groups: predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asian, European - 1787695314.888044
* [24] There have been Yemeni productions of plays by Arab authors such as Tawfiq al-Hakim and Saadallah Wannous and by Western authors, including Shakespeare, Pirandello, Brecht, and Tennessee Williams. Historically speaking, Aden is the cradle of Yemeni theatre; in recent decades Sanaa has hosted numerous theatre festivals, often in conjunction with World Theatre Day. - 1787707676.693643
* [25] Languages: Arabic (official) - 1787695314.888044
* [26] Radio broadcasting in Yemen began in the 1940s. - 1787707676.693643
* [27] Religions: Muslim 99.1% (official; virtually all are citizens, an estimated 65% are Sunni and 35% are Shia), other 0.9% (includes Jewish, Baha'i, Hindu, and Christian; many are refugees or temporary foreign residents) (2020 est.) - 1787695314.888044
* [28] After unification in 1990, the government reformed its corporations and founded some additional radio stations that broadcast locally. However, it drew back after 1994, due to destroyed infrastructure resulting from the 1994 civil war. - 1787707676.693643
* [29] Government type: in transition Capital: Sanaa Legal system: mixed system of Islamic (sharia) law, Napoleonic law, English common law, and customary law - 1787695314.888044
* [30] Yemen's population is 33 million by 2021 estimates, with 46% of the population being under 15 years old and 2.7% above 65 years. In 1950, it was 4.3 million. - 1787707676.693643
* [31] Population: 34,505,496 (2025 est.) - 1787695314.888044
* [32] By 2050, the population is estimated to increase to about 60 million. - 1787707676.693643
* [33] Median age: 20.5 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 39.8% of total population (2023) - 1787695314.888044
* [34] Yemen has a high total fertility rate, at 4.45 children per woman. - 1787707676.693643
* [35] Major urban areas: 3.292 million SANAA (capital), 1.080 million Aden, 941,000 Taiz, 772,000 Ibb (2023) - 1787695314.888044
* [36] Sanaa's population has increased rapidly, from roughly 55,000 in 1978 to nearly 1 million in the early 21st century. - 1787707676.693643
* [37] Life expectancy: 68.2 years (2024 est.) - 1787695314.888044
* [38] When the states of North and South Yemen were established, most minority groups departed. Yemen is a largely tribal society. There are also hereditary caste groups in urban areas such as the Akhdam. - 1787707676.693643
* [39] Branches: Yemeni Armed Forces: Yemeni National Army, Air Force and Air Defense, Navy and Coastal Defense Forces, Border Guard, Strategic Reserve Forces (includes Special Forces and Presidential Protection Brigades, which are under the Ministry of Defense but responsible to the president), Popular Committee Forces (aka Popular Resistance Forces; government-backed tribal militia); Ministry of Interior: Security Forces, Emergency Forces, Counterterrorism Units (2025) Personnel: not available Equipment: the Yemeni Government forces have an inventory consisting primarily of older foreign-supplied weapons systems, mostly of Russian or Soviet origin (2025) - 1787695314.888044

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background sources: CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:Conflicts]]

Lebanon

2026-08-26T02:40:52Z

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{{Infobox place|name=Lebanon|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=89|asof=2026-08-17|image=[[File:lebanon-flag.png|thumb|220px|Lebanon flag. (Henri Pharaon, Public domain)]][[File:lebanon-map.png|thumb|220px|Lebanon locator map. (Eli+ 00:28, 15 January 2012 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Lebanon''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-17|summary=Most recent archived item: Lebanon Flare-Up and Gaza Strikes Dent Mideast Peace Prospects - reported by outlet not recorded|latest=outlet not recorded}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-17}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-17 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon Flare-Up and Gaza Strikes Dent Mideast Peace Prospects
* [2] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Trump's Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality
* [3] 2026-07-12 - ynet.co.il: Lebanon's dilemma
* [4] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [5] 2026-06-22 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon’s Failure to Disassociate
* [6] 2026-06-19 - outlet not recorded: Deadly Violence Rocks Lebanon in Threat to U.S.-Iran Deal
* [7] 2026-06-12 - outlet not recorded: The U.S. Should Not Encourage Syria to Enter Lebanon
* [8] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
* [9] 2026-06-06 - ynet.co.il: Gaza is a step away from catastrophe
* [10] 2026-06-05 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon’s President Accuses Iran of Using Lebanon as Bargaining Chip, Urges Diplomacy Over War
* [11] 2026-05-31 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon's prime minister: Israel has a 'scorched-earth policy' in Lebanon
* [12] 2026-05-31 - outlet not recorded: Israel locates Hezbollah's weapons in South Lebanon
* ...and 77 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

As a result of its location at the crossroads of three continents, the area that is modern-day Lebanon is rich in cultural and religious diversity. [13]

The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary at around 12000 BC. [14]

This region was subject to various foreign conquerors for much of its history, including the Romans, Arabs, and Ottomans. [15]

Evidence of early settlement in Lebanon was found in Byblos, considered among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. [16]

Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]]. [17]

The evidence dates back to earlier than 5000 BC. Archaeologists discovered remnants of prehistoric huts with crushed limestone floors, primitive weapons, and burial jars left by the Neolithic and Chalcolithic fishing communities who lived on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea over 7,000 years ago. Lebanon was part of northern Canaan, and consequently became the homeland of Canaanite descendants, the Phoenicians, a seafaring people based in the coastal strip of the northern Levant who spread across the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC. The most prominent Phoenician cities were Byblos, Sidon and Tyre. According to the Bible, King Hiram of Tyre collaborated closely with Solomon, supplying cedar logs for Solomon's Temple and sending skilled workers. The Phoenicians are credited with the invention of the oldest verified alphabet, which subsequently inspired the Greek alphabet and the Latin one thereafter. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President [[Joseph Aoun|Joseph AOUN]] (since 9 January 2025) Head of government: Prime Minister [[Nawaf Salam|Nawaf SALAM]] (since 8 February 2025) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] Area: 10,400 sq km Terrain: narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains Natural resources: limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; the Lebanon Mountains experience heavy winter snows [21]

=== Culture ===

The culture of Lebanon reflects the legacy of various civilizations spanning thousands of years. Originally home to the Canaanite-Phoenicians, and then conquered and occupied by the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the Ottoman Turks and most recently the French, Lebanese culture has over the millennia evolved by borrowing from all of these groups. [22]

Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% [23]

Lebanon's diverse population, composed of different ethnic and religious groups, has further contributed to the country's festivals, musical styles and literature as well as cuisine. Despite the ethnic, linguistic, religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they "share an almost common culture". [24]

Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian [25]

Lebanese Arabic is universally spoken while food, music, and literature are deep-rooted "in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms". [26]

Religions: Muslim 67.8% (31.9% Sunni, 31.2% Shia, smaller percentages of Alawites and Ismailis), Christian 32.4% (Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group), Druze 4.5%, very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Buddhists, and Hindus (2020 est.) [27]

In visual arts, Moustafa Farroukh was among Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. Formally trained in Rome and Paris, he exhibited in venues from Paris to New York to Beirut over his career. Many more contemporary artists are active, such as Walid Raad, a contemporary media artist residing in New York. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: parliamentary democratic republic Capital: Beirut Legal system: mixed system of civil law based on the French civil code, Ottoman legal tradition, and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities [29]

=== Demographics ===

Lebanon had an estimated population of 5,592,631 in 2021, with the number of Lebanese nationals estimated at 4,680,212 in July; however, no official census has been conducted since 1932 due to the sensitive confessional political balance between Lebanon's various religious groups. [30]

Population: 5,364,482 (2024 est.) [31]

Identifying all Lebanese as ethnically Arab is a widely employed example of panethnicity, as the Lebanese "are descended from many different peoples who are either indigenous, or have occupied, invaded, or settled this corner of the world", making Lebanon, "a mosaic of closely interrelated cultures". [32]

Median age: 29.4 years (2025 est.) [33]

The fertility rate fell from 5.00 in 1971 to 1.75 in 2004. [34]

Urbanization: 89.4% of total population (2023) [35]

Fertility rates vary considerably among the different religious groups: in 2004, it was 2.10 for Shiites, 1.76 for Sunnis and 1.61 for Maronites. [36]

Major urban areas: 2.421 million BEIRUT (capital) (2023) [37]

Lebanese people have a long history of emigration stretching back to the 19th century; including partial ancestry, more Lebanese live outside the country than in Lebanon itself. [38]

Life expectancy: 79.2 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 92% (2019 est.) [39]

The country has experienced a series of migration waves since independence: over 1.8 million people emigrated from the country between 1975 and 2011. Consequently, millions of people of Lebanese descent are spread throughout the world, especially in Latin America; Brazil and Argentina have the largest Lebanese communities, with the former having the largest population in the world, at 5–7 million. North America likewise hosts a large diaspora, particularly in Canada (approximately 250,000–700,000) and the United States (around 2 million). [40]

=== Military ===

Branches: Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army Command (includes Presidential Guard Brigade, Land Border Regiments), Naval Forces, Air Forces; Ministry of Interior: General Directorate of Internal Security Forces (law enforcement; includes Mobile Gendarmerie), General Directorate for Public Security (border control, some domestic security duties) (2025) Personnel: approximately 70,000 active Lebanese Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the LAF's inventory is comprised of mostly older or secondhand equipment from an array of countries, such as France, Germany, [[Russia]], and especially the US (2025) [41]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Lebanon|Timeline: Lebanon]] · [[Gaza]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 10 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +5 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — +1 source(s)
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 12, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [3] Lebanon's dilemma - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691794.592425/
* [9] Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040124/
* [13] Background: As a result of its location at the crossroads of three continents, the area that is modern-day Lebanon is rich in cultural and religious diversity. - 1787695230.96575
* [14] The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary at around 12000 BC. - 1787707364.121196
* [15] Background: This region was subject to various foreign conquerors for much of its history, including the Romans, Arabs, and Ottomans. - 1787695230.96575
* [16] Evidence of early settlement in Lebanon was found in Byblos, considered among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. - 1787707364.121196
* [17] Background: Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. - 1787695230.96575
* [18] The evidence dates back to earlier than 5000 BC. Archaeologists discovered remnants of prehistoric huts with crushed limestone floors, primitive weapons, and burial jars left by the Neolithic and Chalcolithic fishing communities who lived on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea over 7,000 years ago. Lebanon was part of northern Canaan, and consequently became the homeland of Canaanite descendants, the Phoenicians, a seafaring people based in the coastal strip of the northern Levant who spread across the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC. The most prominent Phoenician cities were Byblos, Sidon and Tyre. According to the Bible, King Hiram of Tyre collaborated closely with Solomon, supplying cedar logs for Solomon's Temple and sending skilled workers. The Phoenicians are credited with the invention of the oldest verified alphabet, which subsequently inspired the Greek alphabet and the Latin one thereafter. - 1787707364.121196
* [19] Chief of state: President Joseph AOUN (since 9 January 2025) Head of government: Prime Minister Nawaf SALAM (since 8 February 2025) - 1787695230.96575
* [20] Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria Area: 10,400 sq km Terrain: narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains Natural resources: limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land - 1787695230.96575
* [21] Climate: Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; the Lebanon Mountains experience heavy winter snows - 1787695230.96575
* [22] The culture of Lebanon reflects the legacy of various civilizations spanning thousands of years. Originally home to the Canaanite-Phoenicians, and then conquered and occupied by the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the Ottoman Turks and most recently the French, Lebanese culture has over the millennia evolved by borrowing from all of these groups. - 1787707364.121196
* [23] Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% - 1787695230.96575
* [24] Lebanon's diverse population, composed of different ethnic and religious groups, has further contributed to the country's festivals, musical styles and literature as well as cuisine. Despite the ethnic, linguistic, religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they "share an almost common culture". - 1787707364.121196
* [25] Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian - 1787695230.96575
* [26] Lebanese Arabic is universally spoken while food, music, and literature are deep-rooted "in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms". - 1787707364.121196
* [27] Religions: Muslim 67.8% (31.9% Sunni, 31.2% Shia, smaller percentages of Alawites and Ismailis), Christian 32.4% (Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group), Druze 4.5%, very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Buddhists, and Hindus (2020 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [28] In visual arts, Moustafa Farroukh was among Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. Formally trained in Rome and Paris, he exhibited in venues from Paris to New York to Beirut over his career. Many more contemporary artists are active, such as Walid Raad, a contemporary media artist residing in New York. - 1787707364.121196
* [29] Government type: parliamentary democratic republic Capital: Beirut Legal system: mixed system of civil law based on the French civil code, Ottoman legal tradition, and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities - 1787695230.96575
* [30] Lebanon had an estimated population of 5,592,631 in 2021, with the number of Lebanese nationals estimated at 4,680,212 in July; however, no official census has been conducted since 1932 due to the sensitive confessional political balance between Lebanon's various religious groups. - 1787707364.121196
* [31] Population: 5,364,482 (2024 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [32] Identifying all Lebanese as ethnically Arab is a widely employed example of panethnicity, as the Lebanese "are descended from many different peoples who are either indigenous, or have occupied, invaded, or settled this corner of the world", making Lebanon, "a mosaic of closely interrelated cultures". - 1787707364.121196
* [33] Median age: 29.4 years (2025 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [34] The fertility rate fell from 5.00 in 1971 to 1.75 in 2004. - 1787707364.121196
* [35] Urbanization: 89.4% of total population (2023) - 1787695230.96575
* [36] Fertility rates vary considerably among the different religious groups: in 2004, it was 2.10 for Shiites, 1.76 for Sunnis and 1.61 for Maronites. - 1787707364.121196
* [37] Major urban areas: 2.421 million BEIRUT (capital) (2023) - 1787695230.96575
* [38] Lebanese people have a long history of emigration stretching back to the 19th century; including partial ancestry, more Lebanese live outside the country than in Lebanon itself. - 1787707364.121196
* [39] Life expectancy: 79.2 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 92% (2019 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [40] The country has experienced a series of migration waves since independence: over 1.8 million people emigrated from the country between 1975 and 2011. Consequently, millions of people of Lebanese descent are spread throughout the world, especially in Latin America; Brazil and Argentina have the largest Lebanese communities, with the former having the largest population in the world, at 5–7 million. North America likewise hosts a large diaspora, particularly in Canada (approximately 250,000–700,000) and the United States (around 2 million). - 1787707364.121196
* [41] Branches: Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army Command (includes Presidential Guard Brigade, Land Border Regiments), Naval Forces, Air Forces; Ministry of Interior: General Directorate of Internal Security Forces (law enforcement; includes Mobile Gendarmerie), General Directorate for Public Security (border control, some domestic security duties) (2025) Personnel: approximately 70,000 active Lebanese Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the LAF's inventory is comprised of mostly older or secondhand equipment from an array of countries, such as France, Germany, Russia, and especially the US (2025) - 1787695230.96575

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background sources: CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:Conflicts]]

Mali

2026-08-26T02:40:52Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, 0 provenance group(s), 2026-02-27..2026-08-24

{{Infobox place|name=Mali|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=90|asof=2026-08-24|image=[[File:mali-flag.png|thumb|220px|Mali flag. (SKopp, Public domain)]][[File:mali-map.png|thumb|220px|Mali locator map. (Marcos Elias de Oliveira Júnior, Public domain)]]}}

'''Mali''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-24|summary=Most recent archived item: Côte d'Ivoire: accusé de viols et d'agressions sexuelles, l'influenceur «Coach Mehdi» a été arrêté au Mali - reported by RFI|latest=RFI}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-24}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-24 - RFI: Côte d'Ivoire: accusé de viols et d'agressions sexuelles, l'influenceur «Coach Mehdi» a été arrêté au Mali
* [2] 2026-08-23 - RFI: Mali: FLA Tuareg rebels release about twenty Malian soldiers
* [3] 2026-08-23 - RFI: Mali: the Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers
* [4] 2026-08-23 - RFI: Mali: Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers
* [5] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [6] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [7] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Netanyahu's office: Syria risked status quo
* [8] 2026-08-15 - star.com.tr: Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals.
* [9] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Present-day Mali is named after the Mali Empire that ruled the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. [13]

Rock art in the Sahara suggests that northern Mali has been inhabited since 10,000 BC, when the Sahara was fertile and rich in wildlife. [14]

At its peak in the 14th century, it was the largest and wealthiest empire in West Africa and controlled an area about twice the size of modern-day France. [15]

Early ceramics have been discovered at the central Malian site of Ounjougou dating to about 9,400 BC, and are believed to represent an instance of the independent invention of pottery in the region. [16]

Primarily a trading empire, Mali derived its wealth from gold and maintained several goldfields and trade routes in the Sahel. [17]

Farming took place by 5000 BC, and iron was used by around 500 BC. In the first millennium BC, early cities and towns were created by Mandé peoples related to the Soninke people, along the middle Niger River, including Dia which began from around 900 BC, and reached its peak around 600 BC, and Djenné-Djenno, which lasted from around 300 BC to 900 AD. Through approximately 6th century BC and 4th century BC, the lucrative trans-Saharan trade in pack animals, gold, salt and slaves had begun, facilitating the rise of West Africa's great empires. There are a few references to Mali in early Islamic literature. Among these are references to "Pene" and "Malal" in the work of al-Bakri in 1068, the story of the conversion of an early ruler, known to Ibn Khaldun (by 1397) as Barmandana, and a few geographical details in the work of al-Idrisi. Mali was once part of three famed West African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, other precious commodities, and slaves majorly during the 14th century reign of Mansa Musa. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: Transition President [[Assimi Goita|Assimi GOITA]] (since 7 June 2021) Head of government: Transition Prime Minister Abdoulaye MAIGA (since 22 November 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: interior Western Africa, southwest of Algeria, north of Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, west of Niger Area: 1,240,192 sq km Terrain: mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast Natural resources: gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone, uranium, gypsum, granite, hydropower [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: subtropical to arid; hot and dry (February to June); rainy, humid, and mild (June to November); cool and dry (November to February) [21]

=== Culture ===

The varied everyday culture of Malians reflects the country's ethnic and geographic diversity. Most Malians wear flowing, colorful robes called boubous that are typical of West Africa. [22]

Ethnic groups: Bambara 33.3%, Fulani (Peuhl) 13.3%, Sarakole/Soninke/Marka 9.8%, Senufo/Manianka 9.6%, Malinke 8.8%, Dogon 8.7%, Sonrai 5.9%, Bobo 2.1%, Tuareg/Bella 1.7%, other Malian 6%, from members of Economic Community of West Africa 0.4%, other 0.3% (2018 est.) [23]

Malians frequently participate in traditional festivals, dances, and ceremonies. [24]

Languages: Bambara (official), French 17.2%, Peuhl/Foulfoulbe/Fulani 9.4%, Dogon 7.2%, Maraka/Soninke 6.4%, Malinke 5.6%, Sonrhai/Djerma 5.6%, Minianka 4.3%, Tamacheq 3.5%, Senoufo 2.6%, Bobo 2.1%, other 6.3%, unspecified 0.7% (2009 est.) [25]

Malian musical traditions are derived from the griots, who are known as "Keepers of Memories". Malian music is diverse and has several different genres. [26]

Religions: Muslim 93.9%, Christian 2.8%, animist 0.7%, none 2.5% (2018 est.) [27]

Some influences are kora virtuoso musician Toumani Diabaté, the ngoni with Bassekou Kouyate the virtuoso of the electric jeli ngoni, the late roots and blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, the Tuareg band Tinariwen, Khaira Arby, and several Afro-pop artists such as Salif Keita, the duo Amadou et Mariam, Oumou Sangare, Fatoumata Diawara, Rokia Traore, and Habib Koité. Dance also plays a large role; parties are common events among friends, and traditional mask dances are performed at ceremonial events. Though Mali's literature is less famous than its music, Mali has always been one of Africa's liveliest intellectual centers. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Bamako Legal system: civil law system based on the French civil law model and influenced by customary law; Constitutional Court reviews legislative acts [29]

=== Demographics ===

In 2021 the population was an estimated 21.9 million, which grew from 7.7 million in 1982. [30]

Population: 22,634,423 (2025 est.) Median age: 16.5 years (2025 est.) [31]

The population is predominantly rural (69.7% in 2022), and 5%–10% of Malians are nomadic. More than 90% live in southern Mali, especially in Bamako, which has over 4 million residents. [32]

Urbanization: 46.2% of total population (2023) [33]

In 2024, about 47% were 14 years old or younger, 50% were 15–64 years old, and 3% were 65 and older. [34]

Major urban areas: 2.929 million BAMAKO (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 63.2 years (2024 est.) [35]

The median age was 16.4 years. [36]

Literacy: 35.5% (2018 est.) [37]

The birth rate in 2024 was 40 births per 1,000, and the total fertility rate in 2024 was 5.35 children per woman. The death rate in 2024 was 8.1 deaths per 1,000. Life expectancy at birth was 63.2 years total (60.9 for males and 65.6 for females). [38]

=== Military ===

Branches: Malian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Maliennes or FAMa): Army (l’Armée de Terre), Air Force (l’Armée de l’Air); National Guard (la Garde Nationale du Mali); National Gendarmerie of Mali (Gendarmerie Nationale du Mali) (2025) Expenditures: 4.3% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: information varies; estimated 35-40,000 active FAMa, Gendarmerie, and National Guard (2025) Equipment: the FAMa's inventory includes mostly Soviet-era weapons and equipment along with smaller quantities of more modern material from a variety of suppliers, including France, [[Russia]], South Africa, Türkiye, and the UAE (2025) [39]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Mali|Timeline: Mali]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 4 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +9 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Côte d'Ivoire: accusé de viols et d'agressions sexuelles, l'influenceur «Coach Mehdi» a été arrêté au Mali - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229357/
* [2] Mali: FLA Tuareg rebels release about twenty Malian soldiers - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688108.461736/
* [3] Mali: the Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688108.461736/
* [4] Mali: Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688108.461736/
* [6] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [8] Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229412/
* [13] Background: Present-day Mali is named after the Mali Empire that ruled the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. - 1787695240.298211
* [14] Rock art in the Sahara suggests that northern Mali has been inhabited since 10,000 BC, when the Sahara was fertile and rich in wildlife. - 1787707394.665485
* [15] Background: At its peak in the 14th century, it was the largest and wealthiest empire in West Africa and controlled an area about twice the size of modern-day France. - 1787695240.298211
* [16] Early ceramics have been discovered at the central Malian site of Ounjougou dating to about 9,400 BC, and are believed to represent an instance of the independent invention of pottery in the region. - 1787707394.665485
* [17] Background: Primarily a trading empire, Mali derived its wealth from gold and maintained several goldfields and trade routes in the Sahel. - 1787695240.298211
* [18] Farming took place by 5000 BC, and iron was used by around 500 BC. In the first millennium BC, early cities and towns were created by Mandé peoples related to the Soninke people, along the middle Niger River, including Dia which began from around 900 BC, and reached its peak around 600 BC, and Djenné-Djenno, which lasted from around 300 BC to 900 AD. Through approximately 6th century BC and 4th century BC, the lucrative trans-Saharan trade in pack animals, gold, salt and slaves had begun, facilitating the rise of West Africa's great empires. There are a few references to Mali in early Islamic literature. Among these are references to "Pene" and "Malal" in the work of al-Bakri in 1068, the story of the conversion of an early ruler, known to Ibn Khaldun (by 1397) as Barmandana, and a few geographical details in the work of al-Idrisi. Mali was once part of three famed West African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, other precious commodities, and slaves majorly during the 14th century reign of Mansa Musa. - 1787707394.665485
* [19] Chief of state: Transition President Assimi GOITA (since 7 June 2021) Head of government: Transition Prime Minister Abdoulaye MAIGA (since 22 November 2024) - 1787695240.298211
* [20] Location: interior Western Africa, southwest of Algeria, north of Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, west of Niger Area: 1,240,192 sq km Terrain: mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast Natural resources: gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone, uranium, gypsum, granite, hydropower - 1787695240.298211
* [21] Climate: subtropical to arid; hot and dry (February to June); rainy, humid, and mild (June to November); cool and dry (November to February) - 1787695240.298211
* [22] The varied everyday culture of Malians reflects the country's ethnic and geographic diversity. Most Malians wear flowing, colorful robes called boubous that are typical of West Africa. - 1787707394.665485
* [23] Ethnic groups: Bambara 33.3%, Fulani (Peuhl) 13.3%, Sarakole/Soninke/Marka 9.8%, Senufo/Manianka 9.6%, Malinke 8.8%, Dogon 8.7%, Sonrai 5.9%, Bobo 2.1%, Tuareg/Bella 1.7%, other Malian 6%, from members of Economic Community of West Africa 0.4%, other 0.3% (2018 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [24] Malians frequently participate in traditional festivals, dances, and ceremonies. - 1787707394.665485
* [25] Languages: Bambara (official), French 17.2%, Peuhl/Foulfoulbe/Fulani 9.4%, Dogon 7.2%, Maraka/Soninke 6.4%, Malinke 5.6%, Sonrhai/Djerma 5.6%, Minianka 4.3%, Tamacheq 3.5%, Senoufo 2.6%, Bobo 2.1%, other 6.3%, unspecified 0.7% (2009 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [26] Malian musical traditions are derived from the griots, who are known as "Keepers of Memories". Malian music is diverse and has several different genres. - 1787707394.665485
* [27] Religions: Muslim 93.9%, Christian 2.8%, animist 0.7%, none 2.5% (2018 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [28] Some influences are kora virtuoso musician Toumani Diabaté, the ngoni with Bassekou Kouyate the virtuoso of the electric jeli ngoni, the late roots and blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, the Tuareg band Tinariwen, Khaira Arby, and several Afro-pop artists such as Salif Keita, the duo Amadou et Mariam, Oumou Sangare, Fatoumata Diawara, Rokia Traore, and Habib Koité. Dance also plays a large role; parties are common events among friends, and traditional mask dances are performed at ceremonial events. Though Mali's literature is less famous than its music, Mali has always been one of Africa's liveliest intellectual centers. - 1787707394.665485
* [29] Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Bamako Legal system: civil law system based on the French civil law model and influenced by customary law; Constitutional Court reviews legislative acts - 1787695240.298211
* [30] In 2021 the population was an estimated 21.9 million, which grew from 7.7 million in 1982. - 1787707394.665485
* [31] Population: 22,634,423 (2025 est.) Median age: 16.5 years (2025 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [32] The population is predominantly rural (69.7% in 2022), and 5%–10% of Malians are nomadic. More than 90% live in southern Mali, especially in Bamako, which has over 4 million residents. - 1787707394.665485
* [33] Urbanization: 46.2% of total population (2023) - 1787695240.298211
* [34] In 2024, about 47% were 14 years old or younger, 50% were 15–64 years old, and 3% were 65 and older. - 1787707394.665485
* [35] Major urban areas: 2.929 million BAMAKO (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 63.2 years (2024 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [36] The median age was 16.4 years. - 1787707394.665485
* [37] Literacy: 35.5% (2018 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [38] The birth rate in 2024 was 40 births per 1,000, and the total fertility rate in 2024 was 5.35 children per woman. The death rate in 2024 was 8.1 deaths per 1,000. Life expectancy at birth was 63.2 years total (60.9 for males and 65.6 for females). - 1787707394.665485
* [39] Branches: Malian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Maliennes or FAMa): Army (l’Armée de Terre), Air Force (l’Armée de l’Air); National Guard (la Garde Nationale du Mali); National Gendarmerie of Mali (Gendarmerie Nationale du Mali) (2025) Expenditures: 4.3% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: information varies; estimated 35-40,000 active FAMa, Gendarmerie, and National Guard (2025) Equipment: the FAMa's inventory includes mostly Soviet-era weapons and equipment along with smaller quantities of more modern material from a variety of suppliers, including France, Russia, South Africa, Türkiye, and the UAE (2025) - 1787695240.298211

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DR Congo

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'''DR Congo''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-24|summary=Most recent archived item: Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo - reported by Al Jazeera|latest=Al Jazeera}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-24}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Nearly one in two Ebola patients dying in DR Congo outbreak
* [3] 2026-08-21 - UN News: DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreading exponentially, UN responders warn
* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [7] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [8] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [11] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Bantu, Sudanic, and other migrants from West and Northeastern Africa arrived in the Congo River Basin between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 500. [13]

The area of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo was inhabited as early as 90,000 years ago, and later underwent major demographic and technological change with the expansion of Bantu peoples during the first millennium BC. [14]

The territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 200 ethnic groups that trace their histories to many communal organizations and kingdoms. [15]

From this process emerged organised states and empires, including early federated states around Pool Malebo and later the Kingdom of Kongo, as well many others such as the Luba and Lunda Empires. [16]

The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, ruled the area around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. [17]

From the 1870s to 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium established and ruled the Congo Free State as his personal possession, using forced labour and concessionary companies to extract rubber, while violence, disease, and exploitation caused catastrophic population loss. International exposure of the abuses, notably through the 1904 Casement Report and growing diplomatic pressure, led to Leopold's loss of control and the annexation of the territory as the Belgian Congo in 1908. The Belgian Congo was governed directly from Brussels, and although this change in administration ended the most extreme abuses of the Congo Free State, Belgian rule largely continued earlier patterns of direct control, racial segregation, forced labour, and repression, while prioritising economic exploitation through close cooperation between the state, missionaries, and private companies. After World War II, urbanisation, development programmes, and limited social improvements fostered a small African middle class, but political exclusion persisted, contributing to the rise of nationalist movements and escalating demands for independence in the late 1950s. In May 1960, a growing nationalist movement, the Congolese National Movement led by Patrice Lumumba, won the parliamentary elections. Lumumba became the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, on 24 June 1960. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President [[Felix Tshisekedi|Felix TSHISEKEDI]] (since 20 January 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Judith SUMINWA Tuluka (since 29 May 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola Area: 2,344,858 sq km Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east Natural resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of Equator - wet season (April to October), dry season (December to February); south of Equator - wet season (November to March), dry season (April to October) [21]

=== Culture ===

The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reflects the diversity of its numerous ethnic groups and their differing ways of life throughout the country—from the mouth of the River Congo on the coast, upriver through the rainforest and savanna in its centre, to the more densely populated mountains in the far east. Since the late 19th century, traditional ways of life have undergone changes brought about by colonialism, the struggle for independence, the stagnation of the Mobutu era, and most recently, the First and Second Congo Wars. Despite these pressures, the customs and cultures of the Congo have retained much of their individuality. [22]

Ethnic groups: more than 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest groups - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) - make up about 45% of the population Languages: French (official), Lingala (a trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba [23]

The country's 81 million inhabitants (2016) are mainly rural. [24]

Religions: Christian 93/1% (Roman Catholic 29.9%, Protestant 26.7%, other Christian 36.5%), Kimbanguist 2.8%, Muslim 1.3%, other (includes syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs) 1.2%, none 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2014 est.) [25]

The 30% who live in urban areas have been the most open to Western influences. French-language Congolese literature developed particularly from the end of World War II, during the period of the Belgian Congo. Early figures included Antoine-Roger Bolamba and Paul Lomami-Tshibamba. After independence, Congolese literature diversified, with V. [26]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Kinshasa Legal system: civil law system primarily based on Belgian law, but also customary and tribal law [27]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 119,038,825 (2025 est.) [28]

The DRC has a high annual population growth rate, and the population increased from 51.9 million in 2000 to 105 million in 2021. Between 1950 and 2000, the country's population nearly quadrupled from 12.2 million to 46.9 million. [29]

Median age: 16.9 years (2025 est.) [30]

In 2026, 52% of the population had access to water services (29% in rural areas). 31% have access to sanitation services (21% in rural areas). [31]

Urbanization: 47.4% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 16.316 million KINSHASA (capital), 2.892 million Mbuji-Mayi, 2.812 million Lubumbashi, 1.664 million Kananga, 1.423 million Kisangani, 1.249 million Bukavu (2023) [32]

The DRC also lacks state-sponsored social safety nets, with 12% of formal workers, mostly government employees, being enrolled in the National Social Security Fund. [33]

Life expectancy: 62.6 years (2024 est.) [34]

Over 250 ethnic groups and 450 tribes (ethnic subgroups) populate the DRC. [35]

Literacy: 73.6% (2018 est.) [36]

They are in the Bantu, Sudanic, Nilotic, Ubangian and Pygmy linguistic groups. Because of this diversity, there is no dominant ethnic group in the Congo, however the following ethnic groups account for 51.5% of the population: Luba-Kasaï Kongo Mongo Lubakat Lulua Tetela Nande Ngbandi Ngombe Yaka Ngbaka In 2021, the UN estimated the country's population to be 96 million, a rapid increase from 39.1 million in 1992 despite the ongoing war. As many as 250 ethnic groups have been identified and named. [37]

=== Military ===

Branches: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces d'Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo, FARDC): Land Forces (Forces Terrestres), National Navy (La Marine Nationale), Congolese Air Force (Force Aerienne Congolaise, FAC); Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine, GR); Ministry of Interior: Congolese National Police (Police Nationale Congolaise, PNC) (2025) Expenditures: 1.2% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 100-150,000 active FARDC (2025) Equipment: the FARDC is equipped mostly with Soviet-era and older French armaments; in recent years, it has received some more modern equipment, such as armored vehicles and armed drones, from [[China]], South Africa, [[Turkey]], and the UAE (2025) [38]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:DR Congo|Timeline: DR Congo]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 2 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +11 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502951/
* [2] Nearly one in two Ebola patients dying in DR Congo outbreak - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691197.426235/
* [3] DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreading exponentially, UN responders warn - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691197.426052/
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/
* [13] Background: Bantu, Sudanic, and other migrants from West and Northeastern Africa arrived in the Congo River Basin between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 500. - 1787695220.395812
* [14] The area of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo was inhabited as early as 90,000 years ago, and later underwent major demographic and technological change with the expansion of Bantu peoples during the first millennium BC. - 1787707335.061451
* [15] Background: The territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 200 ethnic groups that trace their histories to many communal organizations and kingdoms. - 1787695220.395812
* [16] From this process emerged organised states and empires, including early federated states around Pool Malebo and later the Kingdom of Kongo, as well many others such as the Luba and Lunda Empires. - 1787707335.061451
* [17] Background: The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, ruled the area around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. - 1787695220.395812
* [18] From the 1870s to 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium established and ruled the Congo Free State as his personal possession, using forced labour and concessionary companies to extract rubber, while violence, disease, and exploitation caused catastrophic population loss. International exposure of the abuses, notably through the 1904 Casement Report and growing diplomatic pressure, led to Leopold's loss of control and the annexation of the territory as the Belgian Congo in 1908. The Belgian Congo was governed directly from Brussels, and although this change in administration ended the most extreme abuses of the Congo Free State, Belgian rule largely continued earlier patterns of direct control, racial segregation, forced labour, and repression, while prioritising economic exploitation through close cooperation between the state, missionaries, and private companies. After World War II, urbanisation, development programmes, and limited social improvements fostered a small African middle class, but political exclusion persisted, contributing to the rise of nationalist movements and escalating demands for independence in the late 1950s. In May 1960, a growing nationalist movement, the Congolese National Movement led by Patrice Lumumba, won the parliamentary elections. Lumumba became the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, on 24 June 1960. - 1787707335.061451
* [19] Chief of state: President Felix TSHISEKEDI (since 20 January 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Judith SUMINWA Tuluka (since 29 May 2024) - 1787695220.395812
* [20] Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola Area: 2,344,858 sq km Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east Natural resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber - 1787695220.395812
* [21] Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of Equator - wet season (April to October), dry season (December to February); south of Equator - wet season (November to March), dry season (April to October) - 1787695220.395812
* [22] The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reflects the diversity of its numerous ethnic groups and their differing ways of life throughout the country—from the mouth of the River Congo on the coast, upriver through the rainforest and savanna in its centre, to the more densely populated mountains in the far east. Since the late 19th century, traditional ways of life have undergone changes brought about by colonialism, the struggle for independence, the stagnation of the Mobutu era, and most recently, the First and Second Congo Wars. Despite these pressures, the customs and cultures of the Congo have retained much of their individuality. - 1787707335.061451
* [23] Ethnic groups: more than 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest groups - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) - make up about 45% of the population Languages: French (official), Lingala (a trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba - 1787695220.395812
* [24] The country's 81 million inhabitants (2016) are mainly rural. - 1787707335.061451
* [25] Religions: Christian 93/1% (Roman Catholic 29.9%, Protestant 26.7%, other Christian 36.5%), Kimbanguist 2.8%, Muslim 1.3%, other (includes syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs) 1.2%, none 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2014 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [26] The 30% who live in urban areas have been the most open to Western influences. French-language Congolese literature developed particularly from the end of World War II, during the period of the Belgian Congo. Early figures included Antoine-Roger Bolamba and Paul Lomami-Tshibamba. After independence, Congolese literature diversified, with V. - 1787707335.061451
* [27] Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Kinshasa Legal system: civil law system primarily based on Belgian law, but also customary and tribal law - 1787695220.395812
* [28] Population: 119,038,825 (2025 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [29] The DRC has a high annual population growth rate, and the population increased from 51.9 million in 2000 to 105 million in 2021. Between 1950 and 2000, the country's population nearly quadrupled from 12.2 million to 46.9 million. - 1787707335.061451
* [30] Median age: 16.9 years (2025 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [31] In 2026, 52% of the population had access to water services (29% in rural areas). 31% have access to sanitation services (21% in rural areas). - 1787707335.061451
* [32] Urbanization: 47.4% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 16.316 million KINSHASA (capital), 2.892 million Mbuji-Mayi, 2.812 million Lubumbashi, 1.664 million Kananga, 1.423 million Kisangani, 1.249 million Bukavu (2023) - 1787695220.395812
* [33] The DRC also lacks state-sponsored social safety nets, with 12% of formal workers, mostly government employees, being enrolled in the National Social Security Fund. - 1787707335.061451
* [34] Life expectancy: 62.6 years (2024 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [35] Over 250 ethnic groups and 450 tribes (ethnic subgroups) populate the DRC. - 1787707335.061451
* [36] Literacy: 73.6% (2018 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [37] They are in the Bantu, Sudanic, Nilotic, Ubangian and Pygmy linguistic groups. Because of this diversity, there is no dominant ethnic group in the Congo, however the following ethnic groups account for 51.5% of the population: Luba-Kasaï Kongo Mongo Lubakat Lulua Tetela Nande Ngbandi Ngombe Yaka Ngbaka In 2021, the UN estimated the country's population to be 96 million, a rapid increase from 39.1 million in 1992 despite the ongoing war. As many as 250 ethnic groups have been identified and named. - 1787707335.061451
* [38] Branches: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces d'Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo, FARDC): Land Forces (Forces Terrestres), National Navy (La Marine Nationale), Congolese Air Force (Force Aerienne Congolaise, FAC); Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine, GR); Ministry of Interior: Congolese National Police (Police Nationale Congolaise, PNC) (2025) Expenditures: 1.2% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 100-150,000 active FARDC (2025) Equipment: the FARDC is equipped mostly with Soviet-era and older French armaments; in recent years, it has received some more modern equipment, such as armored vehicles and armed drones, from China, South Africa, Turkey, and the UAE (2025) - 1787695220.395812

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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Lai Ching-te

2026-08-26T02:40:45Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Taiwan

{{Infobox person|name=Lai Ching-te|role=Chief of state: President LAI Ching-te (since 20 May 2024)|country=[[Taiwan]]|rows=56|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Lai Ching-te''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight - reported by Al-Monitor|latest=Al-Monitor}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Lai Ching-te (Chinese: 賴清德; pinyin: Lài Qīngdé; born 6 October 1959), also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician, physician, and nephrologist who has served as the 8th president of the Republic of [[China]] since 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he has been the party's chairman since 2023. Born in Wanli District, New Taipei, Lai studied medicine at National [[Taiwan]] University and National Cheng Kung University. He graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree in public health in 2003. After practicing internal medicine as a chief physician at two hospitals, Lai won election in 1996 to represent Tainan City in the National Assembly, then served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2010. He was the first mayor of Tainan from 2010 to 2017 and the 26th premier of the Republic of China from 2017 to 2019. In the 2019 Democratic Progressive presidential primary, Lai ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Tsai Ing-wen as DPP's presidential candidate, but became her running mate as candidate for the vice president in the 2020 presidential election and won the election. Lai was nominated by the DPP to be its presidential candidate for 2024 and defeated Kuomintang (KMT) nominee Hou Yu-ih in the 2024 presidential election. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Lai was born on 6 October 1959, in Wanli, a rural coastal town in northern Taipei County (now New Taipei City). He was the youngest child in a poor family of five children. His mother, Lai Tong-hao (賴童好), was the daughter of a local landlord. His father, Lai Chao-chin (賴朝金), was a poor coal miner whose parents immigrated from Gukeng, Yunlin. Their ancestral home was in Banzai, Fujian; his paternal ancestors migrated from Fujian to [[Taiwan]] during the Tongzhi era. When Lai was two years old, his father died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a mining accident. Afterwards, Lai's widowed mother raised him and his siblings as a single parent in a two-story dwelling. Lai attended Wanli Junior High School, a new junior high in New Taipei City, and, after sitting the entrance exams twice, became its first pupil to win admission to Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, the country's top senior high school for boys. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-25 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Russians launched a massive airstrike on Kramatorsk, 11 wounded.
* [5] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: The enemy launched an airstrike on Sloviansk, there are wounded.
* [6] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Who is Khalil Al-Hayya, the Hamas leader who met Kushner in Egypt?
* [7] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Who is Khalil Al-Hayya, the Hamas leader who met Kushner in Cairo?
* [8] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [9] 2026-08-03 - outlet not recorded: Spider-Man and the Tangled Web of the Anti-Israel Boycott
* [10] 2026-07-29 - outlet not recorded: Halo: Campaign Evolved Out Now | Halo - Official Site (en)
* [11] 2026-07-28 - outlet not recorded: Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars
* [12] 2026-07-26 - hispantv.com: Iran's leader: Resistance is the only way to confront the US and Israel
* [13] 2026-07-24 - outlet not recorded: Mother of St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul, fallen soldier whose remains were held by Hamas, passes away
* [14] 2026-07-21 - outlet not recorded: In Southern Lebanon, a Gloss of Diplomacy Can't Hide the Reality of Occupation
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Taiwan}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Lai Ching-te (Chinese: 賴清德; pinyin: Lài Qīngdé; born 6 October 1959), also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician, physician, and nephrologist who has served as the 8th president of the Republic of China since 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he has been the party's chairman since 2023. Born in Wanli District, New Taipei, Lai studied medicine at National Taiwan University and National Cheng Kung University. He graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree in public health in 2003. After practicing internal medicine as a chief physician at two hospitals, Lai won election in 1996 to represent Tainan City in the National Assembly, then served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2010. He was the first mayor of Tainan from 2010 to 2017 and the 26th premier of the Republic of China from 2017 to 2019. In the 2019 Democratic Progressive presidential primary, Lai ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Tsai Ing-wen as DPP's presidential candidate, but became her running mate as candidate for the vice president in the 2020 presidential election and won the election. Lai was nominated by the DPP to be its presidential candidate for 2024 and defeated Kuomintang (KMT) nominee Hou Yu-ih in the 2024 presidential election. - 1787711988.856707
* [2] Lai was born on 6 October 1959, in Wanli, a rural coastal town in northern Taipei County (now New Taipei City). He was the youngest child in a poor family of five children. His mother, Lai Tong-hao (賴童好), was the daughter of a local landlord. His father, Lai Chao-chin (賴朝金), was a poor coal miner whose parents immigrated from Gukeng, Yunlin. Their ancestral home was in Banzai, Fujian; his paternal ancestors migrated from Fujian to Taiwan during the Tongzhi era. When Lai was two years old, his father died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a mining accident. Afterwards, Lai's widowed mother raised him and his siblings as a single parent in a two-story dwelling. Lai attended Wanli Junior High School, a new junior high in New Taipei City, and, after sitting the entrance exams twice, became its first pupil to win admission to Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, the country's top senior high school for boys. - 1787711988.856707
* [3] The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight - https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/syrian-democratic-forces-tip-spear-anti-jihadist-fight
* [4] Russians launched a massive airstrike on Kramatorsk, 11 wounded. - https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-regions/4157482-rosiani-zavdali-masovanogo-aviaudaru-po-kramatorsku-e-postrazdali.html
* [5] The enemy launched an airstrike on Sloviansk, there are wounded. - https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-regions/4157141-vorog-zavdav-aviaudaru-po-slovansku-e-poraneni.html
* [12] Iran's leader: Resistance is the only way to confront the US and Israel - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787692975.900834/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Shehbaz Sharif

2026-08-26T02:40:44Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Pakistan

{{Infobox person|name=Shehbaz Sharif|role=Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz SHARIF (since 3 March 2024)|country=[[Pakistan]]|rows=56|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Shehbaz Sharif''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of [[Pakistan]] since 2024, having previously been in the role between 2022 and 2023. He has also served as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and chief minister of Punjab three times, spanning over 12 years, making him the longest-serving person in the role. Sharif was elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1988 and later to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1990, when his brother became head of the conservative Islami Jamhuri Ittihad (IJI). He was re-elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1993 and appointed leader of the opposition. He was elected as chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, for the first time on 20 February 1997. After the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état, Sharif struck a deal with the military establishment, which was brokered by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and went into exile for a period of ten years in Saudi Arabia, returning to Pakistan in 2007. Sharif was appointed chief minister for a second term after the PML(N)'s victory in Punjab in the 2008 Pakistani general election. He was elected as chief minister of Punjab for the third time after the 2013 Punjab provincial election. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Sharif was born on 23 September 1951 in Lahore, West Punjab. His family is Punjabi with Kashmiri ancestry. Sharif's father, Mian Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business, and eventually settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab, at the beginning of the twentieth century. His mother's family came from Pulwama. Following the partition of India and [[Pakistan]]'s independence in 1947, his parents migrated from Amritsar to Lahore. He has two brothers: Abbas Sharif and Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz is a three-time elected prime minister of Pakistan, serving the longest non-consecutive tenure in the role. Nawaz's wife, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, was the first lady of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz is the current chief minister of Punjab. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [4] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [5] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [6] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [7] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [8] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [11] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [13] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [14] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Pakistan}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Pakistan since 2024, having previously been in the role between 2022 and 2023. He has also served as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and chief minister of Punjab three times, spanning over 12 years, making him the longest-serving person in the role. Sharif was elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1988 and later to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1990, when his brother became head of the conservative Islami Jamhuri Ittihad (IJI). He was re-elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1993 and appointed leader of the opposition. He was elected as chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, for the first time on 20 February 1997. After the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état, Sharif struck a deal with the military establishment, which was brokered by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and went into exile for a period of ten years in Saudi Arabia, returning to Pakistan in 2007. Sharif was appointed chief minister for a second term after the PML(N)'s victory in Punjab in the 2008 Pakistani general election. He was elected as chief minister of Punjab for the third time after the 2013 Punjab provincial election. - 1787711960.653715
* [2] Sharif was born on 23 September 1951 in Lahore, West Punjab. His family is Punjabi with Kashmiri ancestry. Sharif's father, Mian Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business, and eventually settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab, at the beginning of the twentieth century. His mother's family came from Pulwama. Following the partition of India and Pakistan's independence in 1947, his parents migrated from Amritsar to Lahore. He has two brothers: Abbas Sharif and Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz is a three-time elected prime minister of Pakistan, serving the longest non-consecutive tenure in the role. Nawaz's wife, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, was the first lady of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz is the current chief minister of Punjab. - 1787711960.653715
* [3] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [5] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Abdul Fatah al-Burhan

2026-08-26T02:40:44Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Sudan

{{Infobox person|name=Abdul Fatah al-Burhan|role=Chief of state: Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fattah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (since 11 November 2021)|country=[[Sudan]]|rows=50|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Abdul Fatah al-Burhan''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - reported by Africanews|latest=Africanews}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-03-01 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (born 11 July, 1960) is a Sudanese military officer who has been the leader of [[Sudan]] since 2019. Following the Sudanese Revolution in April 2019, he was handed control of the military junta, the Transitional Military Council, a day after it was formed, due to protesters' dissatisfaction with the establishment ties of initial leader Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf. He served as chairman of the TMC until a draft constitutional declaration signed with civilians went into effect on 17 August and a collective head of state Transitional Sovereignty Council was formed on 21 August, also to be initially headed by al-Burhan. The 2020 Juba Agreement allowed al-Burhan to continue to lead the Sovereignty Council for another 20 months, rather than stepping down as planned in February 2021. Al-Burhan seized power in a coup d'état in October 2021, dissolved the Sovereignty Council, and reconstituted it the following month with new membership, keeping himself as chairman. He was formerly the General Inspector of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). He is leading the SAF against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the ongoing Sudanese civil war. Al-Burhan survived an assassination attempt in July 2024. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was born in 1960 in the village of Gandatu in northern [[Sudan]], to a Ja'ali family. Al-Burhan studied elementary and intermediate level in his village school, and later moved to Shendi to complete his education before joining the Sudanese Military College. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Africanews: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list'
* [5] 2026-08-25 - IRNA, Iranian state: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime
* [6] 2026-08-25 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight
* [7] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [8] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [9] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan.
* [10] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [11] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [12] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [13] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while he was performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [14] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan
* ...and 38 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Sudan}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (born 11 July, 1960) is a Sudanese military officer who has been the leader of Sudan since 2019. Following the Sudanese Revolution in April 2019, he was handed control of the military junta, the Transitional Military Council, a day after it was formed, due to protesters' dissatisfaction with the establishment ties of initial leader Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf. He served as chairman of the TMC until a draft constitutional declaration signed with civilians went into effect on 17 August and a collective head of state Transitional Sovereignty Council was formed on 21 August, also to be initially headed by al-Burhan. The 2020 Juba Agreement allowed al-Burhan to continue to lead the Sovereignty Council for another 20 months, rather than stepping down as planned in February 2021. Al-Burhan seized power in a coup d'état in October 2021, dissolved the Sovereignty Council, and reconstituted it the following month with new membership, keeping himself as chairman. He was formerly the General Inspector of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). He is leading the SAF against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the ongoing Sudanese civil war. Al-Burhan survived an assassination attempt in July 2024. - 1787711917.802591
* [2] Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was born in 1960 in the village of Gandatu in northern Sudan, to a Ja'ali family. Al-Burhan studied elementary and intermediate level in his village school, and later moved to Shendi to complete his education before joining the Sudanese Military College. - 1787711917.802591
* [3] Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - http://www.africanews.com/2026/08/25/egypt-sufi-muslims-celebrate-mawlid-al-nabawi-in-cairo/
* [4] Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ahmad-al-sharaa-hails-syrias-removal-us-terrorism-list
* [5] Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime - https://en.irna.ir/news/86245877/Hamas-says-destruction-of-UNRWA-building-in-al-Quds-is-war-crime
* [6] The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight - https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/syrian-democratic-forces-tip-spear-anti-jihadist-fight
* [7] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [8] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [9] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan. - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [10] Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [11] The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [12] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [13] The army executes a citizen while he was performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [14] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Nawaf Salam

2026-08-26T02:40:43Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Lebanon

{{Infobox person|name=Nawaf Salam|role=Head of government: Prime Minister Nawaf SALAM (since 8 February 2025)|country=[[Lebanon]]|rows=44|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Nawaf Salam''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Nawaf Abdallah Salim Salam (Arabic: نوّاف عبد الله سليم سلام; born 15 December 1953) is a Lebanese politician, diplomat, jurist, and academic who has been serving as the 53rd prime minister of [[Lebanon]] since 8 February 2025. Salam previously sat on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a nine-year term beginning in 2018, and additionally served as Lebanon's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York from 2007 to 2017, during which time he held the positions of president of the Security Council and vice president of the General Assembly. In 2024, he was elected the 27th president of the ICJ, becoming the second Arab and the first Lebanese judge to hold the office. He resigned from the court after the parliament of Lebanon nominated him as prime minister. [1]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [2] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [3] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [4] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [5] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [6] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [7] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [8] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [9] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [10] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Shafaq News..Salam: Lebanon-US-Israel accord a framework not treaty - شفق نيوز
* [11] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [12] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [13] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 32 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Lebanon}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Nawaf Abdallah Salim Salam (Arabic: نوّاف عبد الله سليم سلام; born 15 December 1953) is a Lebanese politician, diplomat, jurist, and academic who has been serving as the 53rd prime minister of Lebanon since 8 February 2025. Salam previously sat on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a nine-year term beginning in 2018, and additionally served as Lebanon's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York from 2007 to 2017, during which time he held the positions of president of the Security Council and vice president of the General Assembly. In 2024, he was elected the 27th president of the ICJ, becoming the second Arab and the first Lebanese judge to hold the office. He resigned from the court after the parliament of Lebanon nominated him as prime minister. - 1787711895.301093
* [2] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [4] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Mikhail Mishustin

2026-08-26T02:40:43Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Russia

{{Infobox person|name=Mikhail Mishustin|role=Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020)|country=[[Russia]]|rows=51|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Mikhail Mishustin''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin (born 3 March 1966) is a Russian politician and economist serving as the prime minister of [[Russia]] since 2020. He previously served as the director of the Federal Taxation Service from 2010 to 2020. President [[Vladimir Putin]] nominated Mishustin to become prime minister on 15 January 2020, following the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev and the rest of the government to allow for sweeping constitutional changes. Hearings on his appointment took place in the State Duma on 16 January, and he was confirmed in office that day. Mishustin has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Mikhail Mishustin was born on 3 March 1966 in Lobnya, a town very close to Moscow, to the Mishustin family, Vladimir Moiseyevich and Luiza Mikhailovna. His mother was born in the city of Kotlas in the Arkhangelsk region while Mishustin's father was born in Polotsk and was of Jewish origin. Vladimir Moiseyevich Mishustin was a member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In 1989, he graduated from the STANKIN, majoring in system engineering, and in 1992, he completed postgraduate studies at the same institute. In 2003, Mikhail Mishustin completed a PhD in Economics at the Plekhanov University. In 2010, Mishustin received a DSc in Economics from the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [4] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [5] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [6] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [7] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [8] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [11] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [13] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [14] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 39 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Russia}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin (born 3 March 1966) is a Russian politician and economist serving as the prime minister of Russia since 2020. He previously served as the director of the Federal Taxation Service from 2010 to 2020. President Vladimir Putin nominated Mishustin to become prime minister on 15 January 2020, following the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev and the rest of the government to allow for sweeping constitutional changes. Hearings on his appointment took place in the State Duma on 16 January, and he was confirmed in office that day. Mishustin has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. - 1787711871.475539
* [2] Mikhail Mishustin was born on 3 March 1966 in Lobnya, a town very close to Moscow, to the Mishustin family, Vladimir Moiseyevich and Luiza Mikhailovna. His mother was born in the city of Kotlas in the Arkhangelsk region while Mishustin's father was born in Polotsk and was of Jewish origin. Vladimir Moiseyevich Mishustin was a member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In 1989, he graduated from the STANKIN, majoring in system engineering, and in 1992, he completed postgraduate studies at the same institute. In 2003, Mikhail Mishustin completed a PhD in Economics at the Plekhanov University. In 2010, Mishustin received a DSc in Economics from the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. - 1787711871.475539
* [3] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [5] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Li Qiang

2026-08-26T02:40:42Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from China

{{Infobox person|name=Li Qiang|role=Head of government: Premier LI Qiang (since 11 March 2023)|country=[[China]]|rows=56|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Li Qiang''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Li Qiang (Chinese: 李强; pinyin: Lǐ Qiáng; born July 1959) is a Chinese politician who is the premier of [[China]] and the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Li joined the CCP in 1983, and first worked in the Communist Youth League in Rui'an. Later serving in provincial department of civil affairs, he became the party secretary of Yongkang in 1996, the party secretary of Wenzhou in 2002, the Political Legal Affairs Secretary of Zhejiang in 2011 and later the deputy party secretary of the province. He served as the governor of Zhejiang from 2012 to 2016, later serving as the party secretary of Jiangsu from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, he was elevated to become a member of the CCP Politburo. He subsequently served as the party secretary of Shanghai from 2017 to 2022. During his tenure in Shanghai, he pursued pro-business policies and handled the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, he was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Li was born in the city of Rui'an, Zhejiang, in July 1959 in his maternal grandfather's house. Li's father, Li Xiju (李锡局), came from a poor family in Dong'ao Village, Caocun Town and worked as a government clerk and cadre when he grew up. His mother, Ruan Xiulian (阮秀莲), was from the township of Mayu (马屿镇), Rui'an, and made a living by selling pork when she was young. In his youth, Li was cared for by his maternal grandmother and other elders. He finished primary and secondary school in Mayu. He became a worker in the Irrigation Pump Station of Mayu in July 1976 at the age of 17 after graduating from secondary school, working there until 1977, and worked in the Third Tool Factory of Rui'an from 1977 to 1978. Li Qiang studied agricultural mechanization at the Ningbo Branch of Zhejiang Agricultural University from 1978 to 1982. He studied sociology by correspondence at the private [[China]] Sociology Correspondence University (中国社会学函授大学; defunct in 2021) in Beijing from 1985 to 1987. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [4] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [5] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [6] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [7] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [8] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [11] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [13] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [14] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=China}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Li Qiang (Chinese: 李强; pinyin: Lǐ Qiáng; born July 1959) is a Chinese politician who is the premier of China and the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Li joined the CCP in 1983, and first worked in the Communist Youth League in Rui'an. Later serving in provincial department of civil affairs, he became the party secretary of Yongkang in 1996, the party secretary of Wenzhou in 2002, the Political Legal Affairs Secretary of Zhejiang in 2011 and later the deputy party secretary of the province. He served as the governor of Zhejiang from 2012 to 2016, later serving as the party secretary of Jiangsu from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, he was elevated to become a member of the CCP Politburo. He subsequently served as the party secretary of Shanghai from 2017 to 2022. During his tenure in Shanghai, he pursued pro-business policies and handled the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, he was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee. - 1787711845.22027
* [2] Li was born in the city of Rui'an, Zhejiang, in July 1959 in his maternal grandfather's house. Li's father, Li Xiju (李锡局), came from a poor family in Dong'ao Village, Caocun Town and worked as a government clerk and cadre when he grew up. His mother, Ruan Xiulian (阮秀莲), was from the township of Mayu (马屿镇), Rui'an, and made a living by selling pork when she was young. In his youth, Li was cared for by his maternal grandmother and other elders. He finished primary and secondary school in Mayu. He became a worker in the Irrigation Pump Station of Mayu in July 1976 at the age of 17 after graduating from secondary school, working there until 1977, and worked in the Third Tool Factory of Rui'an from 1977 to 1978. Li Qiang studied agricultural mechanization at the Ningbo Branch of Zhejiang Agricultural University from 1978 to 1982. He studied sociology by correspondence at the private China Sociology Correspondence University (中国社会学函授大学; defunct in 2021) in Beijing from 1985 to 1987. - 1787711845.22027
* [3] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [5] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Asif Ali Zardari

2026-08-26T02:40:42Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Pakistan

{{Infobox person|name=Asif Ali Zardari|role=Chief of state: President Asif Ali ZARDARI (since 10 March 2024)|country=[[Pakistan]]|rows=64|asof=2026-08-21|image=}}

'''Asif Ali Zardari''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-21|summary=Most recent archived item: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - reported by naharnet.com:443|latest=naharnet.com:443}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Asif Ali Zardari (born 26 July 1955) is a Pakistani politician who has served as the 14th president of [[Pakistan]] since 2024, having served as the 11th president from 2008 to 2013. A member of the Pakistan People's Party, he is the first Pakistani head of state born after the country's independence and is also known for being the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The son of Hakim Ali Zardari, a landowner and tribal chief from Sindh, Zardari rose to prominence after his marriage to Benazir Bhutto in 1987, who became the Prime Minister of Pakistan after her election in 1988. When Bhutto's government was dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990, Zardari was widely criticized for involvement in corruption scandals that led to its collapse. When Bhutto was reelected in 1993, Zardari served as Federal Investment Minister and Chairperson of Pakistan Environmental Protection Council. There were increasing tensions between Bhutto's brother Murtaza and Zardari, and Murtaza was killed by police in Karachi on 20 September 1996. Bhutto's government was dismissed a month later by President Farooq Leghari, and Zardari was arrested and indicted for Murtaza's murder and for corruption. Although incarcerated, he nominally served in Parliament after being elected to the National Assembly in 1990 and Senate in 1997. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Zardari was born on 26 July 1955 in Karachi, Federal Capital Territory (present-day Sindh) to a prominent Sindhi-Baloch family, and received his upbringing and education in Karachi. He belongs to the Zardari family and is the only son of Hakim Ali Zardari, the chief of the Baloch Zardari tribe and prominent landowner, and Bilquis Sultana Zardari. His paternal grandmother was of Iraqi descent, while his mother was the granddaughter of Hassan Ali Effendi, a Sindhi educationist with Turkish roots who is known as the founder of the Sindh Madressatul Islam. In his youth, he led a polo team known as the Zardari Four and practised boxing. His father owned Bambino—a famous cinema in Karachi—and donated movie equipment to his school. He appeared in a 1969 movie, Salgira, as a child. Zardari's academic background remains a question mark. He received his primary education from Karachi Grammar School. [2]

=== Career ===

Zardari's initial political career was unsuccessful. In 1983, he lost an election for a district council seat in Nawabshah, a city of Sindh, where his family owned thousands of acres of farmland. He then went into real estate. He married Benazir Bhutto on 18 December 1987. The marriage, which had been arranged, as is customary in [[Pakistan]], was initially described as an unlikely match. The lavish sunset ceremony in Karachi was followed by immense night celebrations that included over 100,000 people. The marriage enhanced Bhutto's political position in a country where older unmarried women are frowned upon. Zardari deferred to his wife's wishes by agreeing to stay out of politics. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-21 - naharnet.com:443: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise
* [5] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [6] 2026-08-20 - patriotpost.us: Victor Davis Hanson : Hating Israel Fatigue
* [7] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [8] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [9] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Israel Evicted Settlers Besieging Palestinian Homes. Hours Later, They Were Back.
* [10] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [11] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [12] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [13] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [14] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [15] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Pakistan}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Asif Ali Zardari (born 26 July 1955) is a Pakistani politician who has served as the 14th president of Pakistan since 2024, having served as the 11th president from 2008 to 2013. A member of the Pakistan People's Party, he is the first Pakistani head of state born after the country's independence and is also known for being the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The son of Hakim Ali Zardari, a landowner and tribal chief from Sindh, Zardari rose to prominence after his marriage to Benazir Bhutto in 1987, who became the Prime Minister of Pakistan after her election in 1988. When Bhutto's government was dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990, Zardari was widely criticized for involvement in corruption scandals that led to its collapse. When Bhutto was reelected in 1993, Zardari served as Federal Investment Minister and Chairperson of Pakistan Environmental Protection Council. There were increasing tensions between Bhutto's brother Murtaza and Zardari, and Murtaza was killed by police in Karachi on 20 September 1996. Bhutto's government was dismissed a month later by President Farooq Leghari, and Zardari was arrested and indicted for Murtaza's murder and for corruption. Although incarcerated, he nominally served in Parliament after being elected to the National Assembly in 1990 and Senate in 1997. - 1787711740.182259
* [2] Zardari was born on 26 July 1955 in Karachi, Federal Capital Territory (present-day Sindh) to a prominent Sindhi-Baloch family, and received his upbringing and education in Karachi. He belongs to the Zardari family and is the only son of Hakim Ali Zardari, the chief of the Baloch Zardari tribe and prominent landowner, and Bilquis Sultana Zardari. His paternal grandmother was of Iraqi descent, while his mother was the granddaughter of Hassan Ali Effendi, a Sindhi educationist with Turkish roots who is known as the founder of the Sindh Madressatul Islam. In his youth, he led a polo team known as the Zardari Four and practised boxing. His father owned Bambino—a famous cinema in Karachi—and donated movie equipment to his school. He appeared in a 1969 movie, Salgira, as a child. Zardari's academic background remains a question mark. He received his primary education from Karachi Grammar School. - 1787711740.182259
* [3] Zardari's initial political career was unsuccessful. In 1983, he lost an election for a district council seat in Nawabshah, a city of Sindh, where his family owned thousands of acres of farmland. He then went into real estate. He married Benazir Bhutto on 18 December 1987. The marriage, which had been arranged, as is customary in Pakistan, was initially described as an unlikely match. The lavish sunset ceremony in Karachi was followed by immense night celebrations that included over 100,000 people. The marriage enhanced Bhutto's political position in a country where older unmarried women are frowned upon. Zardari deferred to his wife's wishes by agreeing to stay out of politics. - 1787711740.182259
* [4] Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - https://www.naharnet.com:443/stories/en/321995-hezbollah-doesn-t-intend-to-cede-ali-al-taher-but-open-to-compromise
* [5] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] Victor Davis Hanson : Hating Israel Fatigue - https://patriotpost.us/opinion/130106-hating-israel-fatigue-2026-08-20
* [8] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Ahmad al-Shara

2026-08-26T02:40:41Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Syria

{{Infobox person|name=Ahmad al-Shara|role=Chief of state: Ahmad al-Shara'; former President Bashar al-ASAD was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024|country=[[Syria]]|rows=48|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Ahmad al-Shara''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list' - reported by Middle East Eye|latest=Middle East Eye}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-03-01 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa (born 29 October 1982), also known by his former nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is a Syrian politician and former rebel commander who has served as the president of [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] since 2025. As the emir of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the de facto leader of the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) during the Syrian civil war, he led the decisive Syrian opposition offensives that resulted in the fall of the Assad regime in 2024. Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from the Golan Heights, he grew up in Syria's capital, Damascus. Al-Sharaa joined al-Qaeda in Iraq shortly before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and fought for two years in the Iraqi insurgency. From 2005 to 2011, he was captured and imprisoned by American and Iraqi forces. His release coincided with the onset of the Syrian revolution against the Ba'athist regime of [[Bashar al-Assad]]. In 2012, with the support of al-Qaeda's central command, al-Sharaa founded Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as al-Nusra Front, to depose the Assad regime. As the emir of al-Nusra Front, al-Sharaa built a stronghold in Idlib Governorate during the Syrian civil war, although his organisation committed a number of war crimes against civilians. [1]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [2] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list'
* [3] 2026-08-25 - Africanews: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo
* [4] 2026-08-25 - IRNA, Iranian state: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime
* [5] 2026-08-25 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight
* [6] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [7] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [8] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan.
* [9] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [10] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [11] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [12] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan
* [13] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while he was performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* ...and 36 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Syria · [[Syria]]}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa (born 29 October 1982), also known by his former nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is a Syrian politician and former rebel commander who has served as the president of Syria since 2025. As the emir of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the de facto leader of the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) during the Syrian civil war, he led the decisive Syrian opposition offensives that resulted in the fall of the Assad regime in 2024. Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from the Golan Heights, he grew up in Syria's capital, Damascus. Al-Sharaa joined al-Qaeda in Iraq shortly before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and fought for two years in the Iraqi insurgency. From 2005 to 2011, he was captured and imprisoned by American and Iraqi forces. His release coincided with the onset of the Syrian revolution against the Ba'athist regime of Bashar al-Assad. In 2012, with the support of al-Qaeda's central command, al-Sharaa founded Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as al-Nusra Front, to depose the Assad regime. As the emir of al-Nusra Front, al-Sharaa built a stronghold in Idlib Governorate during the Syrian civil war, although his organisation committed a number of war crimes against civilians. - 1787711813.007395
* [2] Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ahmad-al-sharaa-hails-syrias-removal-us-terrorism-list
* [3] Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - http://www.africanews.com/2026/08/25/egypt-sufi-muslims-celebrate-mawlid-al-nabawi-in-cairo/
* [4] Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime - https://en.irna.ir/news/86245877/Hamas-says-destruction-of-UNRWA-building-in-al-Quds-is-war-crime
* [5] The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight - https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/syrian-democratic-forces-tip-spear-anti-jihadist-fight
* [6] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [7] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [8] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan. - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [9] Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [10] The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [11] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [12] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [13] The army executes a citizen while he was performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:People]]

Rashad al-Alimi

2026-08-26T02:40:41Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Yemen

{{Infobox person|name=Rashad al-Alimi|role=Chief of state: Rashad Muhammad al-ALIMI (since 19 April 2022)|country=[[Yemen]]|rows=44|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Rashad al-Alimi''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - reported by Africanews|latest=Africanews}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-03-01 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (Arabic: رشاد محمد العليمي, romanized: Rashād Muḥammad al-ʻUlaymī; born 15 January 1954) is a Yemeni politician, and the president of the Presidential Leadership Council since April 2022. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Rashad al-Alimi was born on 15 January 1954 in Al-Aloom, a village in the Taiz Governorate, and is the son of judge Mohammed ben Ali al-Alimi. He graduated from Gamal Abdel Nasser High School in Sanaa in 1969. He subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree in military science from the Kuwait Police College in 1975, and another university degree in arts from Sanaa University in 1977, then a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from Ain Shams University in Egypt between 1984 and 1988. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Africanews: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list'
* [5] 2026-08-25 - IRNA, Iranian state: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime
* [6] 2026-08-25 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight
* [7] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [8] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [9] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan.
* [10] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [11] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [12] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [13] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan
* [14] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while he was performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* ...and 32 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Yemen}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (Arabic: رشاد محمد العليمي, romanized: Rashād Muḥammad al-ʻUlaymī; born 15 January 1954) is a Yemeni politician, and the president of the Presidential Leadership Council since April 2022. - 1787711789.665127
* [2] Rashad al-Alimi was born on 15 January 1954 in Al-Aloom, a village in the Taiz Governorate, and is the son of judge Mohammed ben Ali al-Alimi. He graduated from Gamal Abdel Nasser High School in Sanaa in 1969. He subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree in military science from the Kuwait Police College in 1975, and another university degree in arts from Sanaa University in 1977, then a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from Ain Shams University in Egypt between 1984 and 1988. - 1787711789.665127
* [3] Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - http://www.africanews.com/2026/08/25/egypt-sufi-muslims-celebrate-mawlid-al-nabawi-in-cairo/
* [4] Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ahmad-al-sharaa-hails-syrias-removal-us-terrorism-list
* [5] Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime - https://en.irna.ir/news/86245877/Hamas-says-destruction-of-UNRWA-building-in-al-Quds-is-war-crime
* [6] The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight - https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/syrian-democratic-forces-tip-spear-anti-jihadist-fight
* [7] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [8] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [9] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan. - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [10] Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [11] The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [12] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [13] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [14] The army executes a citizen while he was performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Joseph Aoun

2026-08-26T02:40:41Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Lebanon

{{Infobox person|name=Joseph Aoun|role=Chief of state: President Joseph AOUN (since 9 January 2025)|country=[[Lebanon]]|rows=58|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Joseph Aoun''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Joseph Khalil Aoun (born 10 January 1964) is a Lebanese politician and former army general who has served as the 14th president of [[Lebanon]] since 2025. He has previously served as the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, and is the fifth president with a military background. Born to a Maronite Christian family in the Beirut suburb of Sin el Fil, Aoun enrolled in the Lebanese American University where he got a bachelor's degree in political science and also another degree in military science from the Lebanese Army Military Academy. In 1983, Aoun joined the Lebanese Armed Forces and mainly received military training abroad in [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] and the United States, where he underwent counter-terrorism in 2008, and also in 2013 in Lebanon. In 1990, Aoun served in the Lebanese Commando Regiment in the Lebanese Armed Forces and participated in the War of Elimination where he fought for Michel Aoun (no relation). The commander of the unit, Bassam Gergi, was killed, and thus Aoun took over and became the commander. In 2015, Aoun was appointed commander of the 9th Brigade deployed on the border with Israel. Two years later in March 2017, he was officially appointed commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, replacing Jean Kahwaji. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Aoun was born on 10 January 1964 to a Maronite Christian family, in the Beirut suburb of Sin el-Fil in the Metn District, the child of Hoda Ibrahim Makhlouta and Khalil Aoun. He completed secondary school at the Collège des Frères Mont La Salle. His family is originally from the town of Al-Aaishiyah, Southern [[Lebanon]]. Aoun enrolled at the Lebanese American University to pursue a bachelor's degree in political science and international affairs, which he earned in 2007. He also holds a bachelor's degree in military science from the Lebanese Army Military Academy. [2]

=== Career ===

Aoun's possible presidential candidacy was first raised by Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea in July 2022 who suggested that he would make a good successor to Michel Aoun. Qatar declared support for his candidacy during a visit by officials as they vowed to support the army with financial and military aid; the United States followed with support. In December 2022, a five-nation group was formed by the Doha envoy which involved the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt to hold talks and resolve the presidential vacancy in [[Lebanon]] in which most countries affirmed their support for Aoun's election. Walid Jumblatt was the first to officially announce, in 2024, that the Democratic Gathering bloc, which he leads, would elect him. On 9 January 2025 opposition groups including the Kataeb party, the Renewal Bloc, and the Lebanese Forces issued a joint statement in support of Aoun. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [7] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [8] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [9] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [15] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 46 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Lebanon}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Joseph Khalil Aoun (born 10 January 1964) is a Lebanese politician and former army general who has served as the 14th president of Lebanon since 2025. He has previously served as the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, and is the fifth president with a military background. Born to a Maronite Christian family in the Beirut suburb of Sin el Fil, Aoun enrolled in the Lebanese American University where he got a bachelor's degree in political science and also another degree in military science from the Lebanese Army Military Academy. In 1983, Aoun joined the Lebanese Armed Forces and mainly received military training abroad in Syria and the United States, where he underwent counter-terrorism in 2008, and also in 2013 in Lebanon. In 1990, Aoun served in the Lebanese Commando Regiment in the Lebanese Armed Forces and participated in the War of Elimination where he fought for Michel Aoun (no relation). The commander of the unit, Bassam Gergi, was killed, and thus Aoun took over and became the commander. In 2015, Aoun was appointed commander of the 9th Brigade deployed on the border with Israel. Two years later in March 2017, he was officially appointed commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, replacing Jean Kahwaji. - 1787711719.634543
* [2] Aoun was born on 10 January 1964 to a Maronite Christian family, in the Beirut suburb of Sin el-Fil in the Metn District, the child of Hoda Ibrahim Makhlouta and Khalil Aoun. He completed secondary school at the Collège des Frères Mont La Salle. His family is originally from the town of Al-Aaishiyah, Southern Lebanon. Aoun enrolled at the Lebanese American University to pursue a bachelor's degree in political science and international affairs, which he earned in 2007. He also holds a bachelor's degree in military science from the Lebanese Army Military Academy. - 1787711719.634543
* [3] Aoun's possible presidential candidacy was first raised by Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea in July 2022 who suggested that he would make a good successor to Michel Aoun. Qatar declared support for his candidacy during a visit by officials as they vowed to support the army with financial and military aid; the United States followed with support. In December 2022, a five-nation group was formed by the Doha envoy which involved the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt to hold talks and resolve the presidential vacancy in Lebanon in which most countries affirmed their support for Aoun's election. Walid Jumblatt was the first to officially announce, in 2024, that the Democratic Gathering bloc, which he leads, would elect him. On 9 January 2025 opposition groups including the Kataeb party, the Renewal Bloc, and the Lebanese Forces issued a joint statement in support of Aoun. - 1787711719.634543
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Assimi Goita

2026-08-26T02:40:40Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Mali

{{Infobox person|name=Assimi Goita|role=Chief of state: Transition President Assimi GOITA (since 7 June 2021)|country=[[Mali]]|rows=48|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Assimi Goita''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Assimi Goïta (born 9 November 1983) is a Malian military officer who has ruled [[Mali]] since 2021. He has served as the sixth president of Mali since 2025, previously serving as the interim vice president under Interim President Bah Ndaw from 2020 to 2021 and then as the interim president until 2025. He also served as the president of the Alliance of Sahel States from 2024 to 2025. Born in Bamako, Goïta graduated from the Joint Military School in 2002 and was later assigned to the 134th Reconnaissance Squadron in Gao. Goïta also attended advanced military training and courses in Germany, Gabon, France and the United States. Following a coup in August 2020, Goïta became Mali's de facto leader as chairman of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, a military junta that seized power from former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. The following month, Goïta was appointed the interim vice president under the new interim president Bah Ndaw, to whom Goïta had transferred power in response to international pressure. In May 2021, following a dispute in the government, Goïta seized power from Ndaw in another coup and was subsequently appointed interim president. [1]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [2] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [3] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [4] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [5] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [6] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [7] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [8] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [10] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [11] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [12] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [13] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 36 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Mali}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Assimi Goïta (born 9 November 1983) is a Malian military officer who has ruled Mali since 2021. He has served as the sixth president of Mali since 2025, previously serving as the interim vice president under Interim President Bah Ndaw from 2020 to 2021 and then as the interim president until 2025. He also served as the president of the Alliance of Sahel States from 2024 to 2025. Born in Bamako, Goïta graduated from the Joint Military School in 2002 and was later assigned to the 134th Reconnaissance Squadron in Gao. Goïta also attended advanced military training and courses in Germany, Gabon, France and the United States. Following a coup in August 2020, Goïta became Mali's de facto leader as chairman of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, a military junta that seized power from former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. The following month, Goïta was appointed the interim vice president under the new interim president Bah Ndaw, to whom Goïta had transferred power in response to international pressure. In May 2021, following a dispute in the government, Goïta seized power from Ndaw in another coup and was subsequently appointed interim president. - 1787711699.972015
* [2] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [4] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Felix Tshisekedi

2026-08-26T02:40:40Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from DR Congo

{{Infobox person|name=Felix Tshisekedi|role=Chief of state: President Felix TSHISEKEDI (since 20 January 2024)|country=[[DR Congo]]|rows=60|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Felix Tshisekedi''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo (French: [feliks ɑ̃twan tʃisekedi tʃilombo]; born 13 June 1963) is a Congolese politician who is the fifth president of the Democratic Republic of the [[DR Congo|Congo]], serving since 2019. He was the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the DRC's oldest and largest party, succeeding his dead father Étienne Tshisekedi in that role, a three-time Prime Minister of Zaire and opposition leader during the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. Tshisekedi was the UDPS party's candidate for president in the December 2018 general election, which he was awarded, after accusations of irregularities from several election monitoring organisations and other opposition parties. The Constitutional Court of the DRC upheld his victory after another opposition politician, Martin Fayulu, challenged the result, and Tshisekedi has been accused of making a deal with his predecessor, Joseph Kabila. The election marked the first peaceful transition of power since the DRC's independence from Belgium in 1960. Since the Common Front for Congo (FCC) coalition, which is aligned with Kabila, still controlled the parliament and provincial governorships, Tshisekedi's ability to govern or appoint a new Prime Minister was limited for the first six months of his term. He named his coalition partner and political heavyweight, Vital Kamerhe, as his Chief of Cabinet, at first having designated him prime minister and not having the parliamentary support to have him successfully appointed. In May 2019, he reached a deal with the parliament's Kabila-aligned majority to appoint Sylvestre Ilunga prime minister. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Tshisekedi, a member of the Luba ethnic group, was born in Kinshasa on 13 June 1963 to mother Marthe and father Étienne Tshisekedi, who served as Prime Minister of Zaire in the 1990s. He had a comfortable life as a youth in the capital, but when his father created the UDPS in the early 1980s, publicly opposing Mobutu, Félix was forced to accompany him into house arrest in his native village in central Kasaï. This put his studies on hold. In 1985, Mobutu allowed him, his mother, and his brothers to leave Kasaï. [2]

=== Career ===

In late 2008, Tshisekedi was named the UDPS National Secretary for external relations. In November 2011, he obtained a seat in the National Assembly, representing the city of Mbuji Mayi in Kasai-Oriental province. He did not take his seat, citing a fraudulent election, and his mandate was invalidated for "absenteeism". In May 2013, he refused a position of rapporteur at the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), saying that he did not want to put his political career on hold as CENI's article 17 excludes membership for those who are members of a political formation. In October 2016, Tshisekedi became vice secretary general of the UDPS. On 31 March 2018, he was elected to lead the UDPS, after his father's death on 1 February 2017. The same day, the UDPS nominated him for president in the December 2018 general election. On 10 January 2019, it was announced that Tshisekedi had won the presidency of the DRC in the December 2018 election. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [7] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [8] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [9] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [15] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 48 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=DR Congo}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo (French: [feliks ɑ̃twan tʃisekedi tʃilombo]; born 13 June 1963) is a Congolese politician who is the fifth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving since 2019. He was the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the DRC's oldest and largest party, succeeding his dead father Étienne Tshisekedi in that role, a three-time Prime Minister of Zaire and opposition leader during the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. Tshisekedi was the UDPS party's candidate for president in the December 2018 general election, which he was awarded, after accusations of irregularities from several election monitoring organisations and other opposition parties. The Constitutional Court of the DRC upheld his victory after another opposition politician, Martin Fayulu, challenged the result, and Tshisekedi has been accused of making a deal with his predecessor, Joseph Kabila. The election marked the first peaceful transition of power since the DRC's independence from Belgium in 1960. Since the Common Front for Congo (FCC) coalition, which is aligned with Kabila, still controlled the parliament and provincial governorships, Tshisekedi's ability to govern or appoint a new Prime Minister was limited for the first six months of his term. He named his coalition partner and political heavyweight, Vital Kamerhe, as his Chief of Cabinet, at first having designated him prime minister and not having the parliamentary support to have him successfully appointed. In May 2019, he reached a deal with the parliament's Kabila-aligned majority to appoint Sylvestre Ilunga prime minister. - 1787711679.301265
* [2] Tshisekedi, a member of the Luba ethnic group, was born in Kinshasa on 13 June 1963 to mother Marthe and father Étienne Tshisekedi, who served as Prime Minister of Zaire in the 1990s. He had a comfortable life as a youth in the capital, but when his father created the UDPS in the early 1980s, publicly opposing Mobutu, Félix was forced to accompany him into house arrest in his native village in central Kasaï. This put his studies on hold. In 1985, Mobutu allowed him, his mother, and his brothers to leave Kasaï. - 1787711679.301265
* [3] In late 2008, Tshisekedi was named the UDPS National Secretary for external relations. In November 2011, he obtained a seat in the National Assembly, representing the city of Mbuji Mayi in Kasai-Oriental province. He did not take his seat, citing a fraudulent election, and his mandate was invalidated for "absenteeism". In May 2013, he refused a position of rapporteur at the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), saying that he did not want to put his political career on hold as CENI's article 17 excludes membership for those who are members of a political formation. In October 2016, Tshisekedi became vice secretary general of the UDPS. On 31 March 2018, he was elected to lead the UDPS, after his father's death on 1 February 2017. The same day, the UDPS nominated him for president in the December 2018 general election. On 10 January 2019, it was announced that Tshisekedi had won the presidency of the DRC in the December 2018 election. - 1787711679.301265
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

State of the feeds

2026-08-26T02:34:40Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: State of the feeds, 2026-08-25

'''What this project could see on 2026-08-25.'''

Generated from the run's own health record. It is not a claim that the world was quiet — it is a record of which sources answered, so a thin section can be told from a quiet day.

== Sources needing attention ==

{| class="table table-sm"
! Source !! Failures !! Empty runs !! Last error !! Retry
|-
| allevents_columbus || 4 || 15 || RuntimeError: HTTP 403 via proxy || 2026-08-27
|-
| allevents_oxford || 4 || 15 || RuntimeError: HTTP 403 via proxy || 2026-08-27
|-
| allevents_starkville || 4 || 15 || RuntimeError: HTTP 403 via proxy || 2026-08-27
|-
| allevents_tupelo || 4 || 15 || RuntimeError: HTTP 403 via proxy || 2026-08-27
|-
| almonitor || 0 || 2 || — || —
|-
| djournal_local || 4 || 4 || TooManyRequests: || 2026-08-27
|-
| olemiss_events || 3 || 3 || RuntimeError: HTTP 403 via proxy || 2026-08-26
|-
| state_dept || 3 || 3 || RuntimeError: HTTP 407 via proxy || 2026-08-26
|-
| unnews || 0 || 3 || — || —
|-
| ynet || 0 || 10 || — || —
|}

A quarantined source is **set aside deliberately** after repeated failures, not lost. It is retried on the date shown.

== Sources answering ==

47 of 57 sources returned items on their last run.

== What the world looked like ==

Candidates by theatre in the most recent pull, counting the pool rather than what was published — a theatre missing from the digest may have been passed over, or may never have been offered.

{| class="table table-sm"
! Theatre !! Candidates
|-
| middle_east || 44
|-
| unassigned || 25
|-
| indo_pacific || 22
|-
| africa || 21
|-
| russia_ukraine || 18
|-
| europe || 7
|-
| americas || 3
|}

== Most argued-over subjects ==

Topics where the archive holds competing accounts, by how often they have been contested.

* Ukraine — 13 recorded
* Israel, Palestine and Syria — 12 recorded
* Strait of Hormuz — 9 recorded
* Sanctions — 6 recorded
* Gaza — 3 recorded
* Nuclear programme — 2 recorded
* Syria — 2 recorded
* Trade and tariffs — 2 recorded

== The archive ==

740 war items archived from daily pulls. Research backfill is held separately and is deliberately excluded from volume figures, so one backfill run cannot look like a spike.

[[Category:Index]]

Masoud Pezeshkian

2026-08-26T02:32:01Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Iran

{{Infobox person|name=Masoud Pezeshkian|role=Head of government: President Masoud PEZESHKIAN (since 30 July 2024)|country=[[Iran]]|rows=64|asof=2026-08-23|image=}}

'''Masoud Pezeshkian''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-23|summary=Most recent archived item: Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions - reported by Al Jazeera|latest=Al Jazeera}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-23}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Masoud Pezeshkian (born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and heart surgeon who has served as the ninth president of [[Iran]] since 2024. A member of the reformist faction, he is the oldest person to serve in this position, taking office at the age of 69. Born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, to an Iranian Azerbaijani and Iranian Kurdish family, Pezeshkian graduated from the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences with a degree in medicine and served as a doctor for Iranian soldiers in the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Pezeshkian served as governor of Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties and his political career began in 1997 when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He served as Minister of Health and Medical Education from 2001 to 2005. He was later elected to the parliament five times, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district, from 2008 to 2024. During this time, Pezeshkian was also First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from 2016 to 2020. Prior to the 2024 presidential election, he enrolled himself in two previous elections, the 2013 election, in which he withdrew, and the 2021 election, in which he was rejected from running. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Masoud Pezeshkian was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, on 29 September 1954. His parents, Mohammadali Pezeshkian and Mahboubeh Soudbakhsh, were both from Urmia and had moved to Mahabad for employment before his birth. He spoke both Azeri and Kurdish fluently and was often reported to be of mixed Azeri-Kurdish parentage, although he considered himself and both of his parents as full Turks. In 1973, he received his diploma and moved to Zabol to serve his conscription duty. It was during this time that he became interested in medicine. After completing his service, he returned to his home province, where he entered Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and graduated with a degree in medicine. During the [[Iran]]–Iraq War (1980–1988), Pezeshkian frequently visited the front lines, where he was responsible for sending medical teams and working as a fighter and doctor. He finished his general practitioner course in 1985, and started teaching physiology at the medical college. [2]

=== Career ===

In 1997, Pezeshkian's political career began when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He was the Iranian health minister from 2001 to 2005. In 2003, while health minister, Pezeshkiyan faced an impeachment vote by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, surviving with 170 votes for him, 60 votes against, and 5 abstentions. After completing his term and leaving the ministry, he resumed his medical career in Tabriz. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in five terms, from 2008 to 2024, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr. He served as the first deputy speaker of the parliament from 2016 to 2020. He advocated for education in türk dili (lit. 'Turkish language') to be free in [[Iran]]. In 2016, he was elected as the head of the Fraction of Turkic Regions — itself established to support the right to education in the Turkic languages of Iran, and constituting the first ever ethnocultural political group in Iranian history with representation in the national legislature. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-23 - Al Jazeera: Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions
* [5] 2026-08-22 - outlet not recorded: Pezeshkian claims Iran victory as Trump escalates economic war
* [6] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Shafaq News..Pezeshkian urges political unity to safeguard public welfare - شفق نيوز
* [7] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [8] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [9] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [10] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [11] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [12] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [13] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [14] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [15] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Iran}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Masoud Pezeshkian (born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and heart surgeon who has served as the ninth president of Iran since 2024. A member of the reformist faction, he is the oldest person to serve in this position, taking office at the age of 69. Born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, to an Iranian Azerbaijani and Iranian Kurdish family, Pezeshkian graduated from the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences with a degree in medicine and served as a doctor for Iranian soldiers in the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Pezeshkian served as governor of Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties and his political career began in 1997 when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He served as Minister of Health and Medical Education from 2001 to 2005. He was later elected to the parliament five times, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district, from 2008 to 2024. During this time, Pezeshkian was also First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from 2016 to 2020. Prior to the 2024 presidential election, he enrolled himself in two previous elections, the 2013 election, in which he withdrew, and the 2021 election, in which he was rejected from running. - 1787711241.149486
* [2] Masoud Pezeshkian was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, on 29 September 1954. His parents, Mohammadali Pezeshkian and Mahboubeh Soudbakhsh, were both from Urmia and had moved to Mahabad for employment before his birth. He spoke both Azeri and Kurdish fluently and was often reported to be of mixed Azeri-Kurdish parentage, although he considered himself and both of his parents as full Turks. In 1973, he received his diploma and moved to Zabol to serve his conscription duty. It was during this time that he became interested in medicine. After completing his service, he returned to his home province, where he entered Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and graduated with a degree in medicine. During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Pezeshkian frequently visited the front lines, where he was responsible for sending medical teams and working as a fighter and doctor. He finished his general practitioner course in 1985, and started teaching physiology at the medical college. - 1787711241.149486
* [3] In 1997, Pezeshkian's political career began when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He was the Iranian health minister from 2001 to 2005. In 2003, while health minister, Pezeshkiyan faced an impeachment vote by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, surviving with 170 votes for him, 60 votes against, and 5 abstentions. After completing his term and leaving the ministry, he resumed his medical career in Tabriz. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in five terms, from 2008 to 2024, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr. He served as the first deputy speaker of the parliament from 2016 to 2020. He advocated for education in türk dili (lit. 'Turkish language') to be free in Iran. In 2016, he was elected as the head of the Fraction of Turkic Regions — itself established to support the right to education in the Turkic languages of Iran, and constituting the first ever ethnocultural political group in Iranian history with representation in the national legislature. - 1787711241.149486
* [4] Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653856.552749/
* [7] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [9] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Bashar al-Assad

2026-08-26T02:32:00Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Syria

{{Infobox person|name=Bashar al-Assad|role=Chief of state: Ahmad al-Shara'; former President Bashar al-ASAD was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024|country=[[Syria]]|rows=56|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Bashar al-Assad''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - reported by Africanews|latest=Africanews}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-03-15 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, and military officer who served as the president of [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000. In the 1980s, Assad became a doctor, and in the early 1990s he was training in London as an ophthalmologist. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel al-Assad died in a car crash, Assad was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent. Assad entered the military academy and in 1998 took charge of the Syrian occupation of [[Lebanon]] begun by his father. On 17 July 2000, Assad became president, succeeding his father, who had died on 10 June 2000. Hopes that the UK-educated Assad would bring reform to Syria and relax the occupation of Lebanon were dashed following a series of crackdowns in 2001–2002 that ended the Damascus Spring, a period defined by calls for transparency and democracy. [1]

=== Presidency ===

After the death of Hafez al-Assad on 10 June 2000, the Constitution of [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] was amended. The minimum age requirement for the presidency was lowered from 40 to 34, which was Bashar's age at the time. The sole candidate of the presidential referendum, Assad was subsequently confirmed president on 10 July 2000, with 97.29% support for his leadership. In line with his role as President of Syria, he was also appointed the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party. A series of state elections were held every seven years which Assad won with overwhelming majority of votes. The elections are unanimously regarded by independent observers as a sham process and boycotted by the opposition. The last two elections – held in 2014 and 2021 – were conducted only in areas controlled by the Syrian government during the country's ongoing civil war and condemned by the United Nations. In the five years before 2011 the government of Bashar consolidated state power over the economy and political system. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Africanews: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list'
* [5] 2026-08-25 - IRNA, Iranian state: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime
* [6] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [7] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [8] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan.
* [9] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [10] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [11] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [12] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Khaddam recounts final Damascus meeting… Bashar to Hariri: ‘Whoever defies me, I will break his bones’
* [13] 2026-08-21 - naharnet.com:443: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise
* [14] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Israeli Airstrikes Demolish 80 Percent of Syrian Military Infrastructure Post-Assad - streamlinefeed.co.ke
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Syria}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000. In the 1980s, Assad became a doctor, and in the early 1990s he was training in London as an ophthalmologist. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel al-Assad died in a car crash, Assad was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent. Assad entered the military academy and in 1998 took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon begun by his father. On 17 July 2000, Assad became president, succeeding his father, who had died on 10 June 2000. Hopes that the UK-educated Assad would bring reform to Syria and relax the occupation of Lebanon were dashed following a series of crackdowns in 2001–2002 that ended the Damascus Spring, a period defined by calls for transparency and democracy. - 1787711202.395021
* [2] After the death of Hafez al-Assad on 10 June 2000, the Constitution of Syria was amended. The minimum age requirement for the presidency was lowered from 40 to 34, which was Bashar's age at the time. The sole candidate of the presidential referendum, Assad was subsequently confirmed president on 10 July 2000, with 97.29% support for his leadership. In line with his role as President of Syria, he was also appointed the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party. A series of state elections were held every seven years which Assad won with overwhelming majority of votes. The elections are unanimously regarded by independent observers as a sham process and boycotted by the opposition. The last two elections – held in 2014 and 2021 – were conducted only in areas controlled by the Syrian government during the country's ongoing civil war and condemned by the United Nations. In the five years before 2011 the government of Bashar consolidated state power over the economy and political system. - 1787711202.395021
* [3] Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - http://www.africanews.com/2026/08/25/egypt-sufi-muslims-celebrate-mawlid-al-nabawi-in-cairo/
* [4] Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ahmad-al-sharaa-hails-syrias-removal-us-terrorism-list
* [5] Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime - https://en.irna.ir/news/86245877/Hamas-says-destruction-of-UNRWA-building-in-al-Quds-is-war-crime
* [6] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [7] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [8] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan. - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [9] Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [10] The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [11] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [13] Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - https://www.naharnet.com:443/stories/en/321995-hezbollah-doesn-t-intend-to-cede-ali-al-taher-but-open-to-compromise

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

2026-08-26T02:32:00Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Turkey

{{Infobox person|name=Recep Tayyip Erdogan|role=Chief of state: President Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN (since 28 August 2014)|country=[[Turkey]]|rows=64|asof=2026-08-21|image=}}

'''Recep Tayyip Erdogan''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-21|summary=Most recent archived item: Turkiye slams Israeli Prime Minister’s Office over remarks targeting President Erdogan - reported by Middle East Monitor|latest=Middle East Monitor}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the president of [[Turkey]] since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2002. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan. Erdoğan was born in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, and studied at the Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, before working as a consultant and senior manager in the private sector. Becoming active in local politics, he was elected Welfare Party's Beyoğlu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 local elections, Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born on 26 February 1954 in Kasımpaşa, Beyoğlu to a modest conservative Muslim family. Erdoğan's family is originally from Adjara, a region in Georgia. Although Erdoğan was reported to have said in 2003 that he was of Georgian origin and that his origins were in Batumi, he later denied this. His parents were Ahmet Erdoğan (1905–1988), a coastguard and sea captain, and Tenzile Erdoğan (née Mutlu; 1924–2011). While Erdoğan attended school in Istanbul, his summer holidays were mostly spent in Güneysu, Rize, where his family originates from. Throughout his life he often returned to this spiritual home, and in 2015 he opened a vast mosque on a mountaintop near this village. The family returned to Istanbul when Erdoğan was 13 years old. As a teenager, Erdoğan's father provided him with a weekly allowance of 2.5 Turkish lira, less than a dollar. [2]

=== Presidency ===

Erdoğan took the oath of office on 28 August 2014 and became the 12th president of [[Turkey]]. He administered the new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's oath on 29 August. When asked about his lower-than-expected 51.79% share of the vote, he allegedly responded, "there were even those who did not like the Prophet. I, however, won 52%". Assuming the role of President, Erdoğan was criticized for openly stating that he would not maintain the tradition of presidential neutrality. Erdoğan has also stated his intention to pursue a more active role as president, such as utilizing the President's rarely used cabinet-calling powers. The political opposition has argued that Erdoğan will continue to pursue his own political agenda, controlling the government, while his new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu would be docile and submissive. Furthermore, the domination of loyal Erdoğan supporters in Davutoğlu's cabinet fuelled speculation that Erdoğan intended to exercise substantial control over the government. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-21 - Middle East Monitor: Turkiye slams Israeli Prime Minister’s Office over remarks targeting President Erdogan
* [5] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [6] 2026-08-20 - patriotpost.us: Victor Davis Hanson : Hating Israel Fatigue
* [7] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [8] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [9] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Israel Evicted Settlers Besieging Palestinian Homes. Hours Later, They Were Back.
* [10] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [11] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-25 - outlet not recorded: Trump claims he stopped ‘great leader’ Erdogan from bringing Turkey into war on Iran’s side
* [15] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Turkey}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2002. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan. Erdoğan was born in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, and studied at the Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, before working as a consultant and senior manager in the private sector. Becoming active in local politics, he was elected Welfare Party's Beyoğlu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 local elections, Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul. - 1787711163.210267
* [2] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born on 26 February 1954 in Kasımpaşa, Beyoğlu to a modest conservative Muslim family. Erdoğan's family is originally from Adjara, a region in Georgia. Although Erdoğan was reported to have said in 2003 that he was of Georgian origin and that his origins were in Batumi, he later denied this. His parents were Ahmet Erdoğan (1905–1988), a coastguard and sea captain, and Tenzile Erdoğan (née Mutlu; 1924–2011). While Erdoğan attended school in Istanbul, his summer holidays were mostly spent in Güneysu, Rize, where his family originates from. Throughout his life he often returned to this spiritual home, and in 2015 he opened a vast mosque on a mountaintop near this village. The family returned to Istanbul when Erdoğan was 13 years old. As a teenager, Erdoğan's father provided him with a weekly allowance of 2.5 Turkish lira, less than a dollar. - 1787711163.210267
* [3] Erdoğan took the oath of office on 28 August 2014 and became the 12th president of Turkey. He administered the new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's oath on 29 August. When asked about his lower-than-expected 51.79% share of the vote, he allegedly responded, "there were even those who did not like the Prophet. I, however, won 52%". Assuming the role of President, Erdoğan was criticized for openly stating that he would not maintain the tradition of presidential neutrality. Erdoğan has also stated his intention to pursue a more active role as president, such as utilizing the President's rarely used cabinet-calling powers. The political opposition has argued that Erdoğan will continue to pursue his own political agenda, controlling the government, while his new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu would be docile and submissive. Furthermore, the domination of loyal Erdoğan supporters in Davutoğlu's cabinet fuelled speculation that Erdoğan intended to exercise substantial control over the government. - 1787711163.210267
* [4] Turkiye slams Israeli Prime Minister’s Office over remarks targeting President Erdogan - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260821-turkiye-slams-israeli-prime-ministers-office-over-remarks-targeting-president-erdogan/
* [5] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] Victor Davis Hanson : Hating Israel Fatigue - https://patriotpost.us/opinion/130106-hating-israel-fatigue-2026-08-20
* [8] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Ali Khamenei

2026-08-26T02:31:59Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Iran

{{Infobox person|name=Ali Khamenei|role=Chief of state: Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989)|country=[[Iran]]|rows=56|asof=2026-08-21|image=}}

'''Ali Khamenei''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-21|summary=Most recent archived item: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - reported by naharnet.com:443|latest=naharnet.com:443}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of [[Iran]] from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the title Grand Ayatollah, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His 36-year tenure as supreme leader made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death. Born in Mashhad to the Khamenei family, he studied at a hawza there before settling in Qom in 1958, where he attended the classes of Ruhollah Khomeini. Khamenei became involved in opposition to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was arrested six times before being exiled for three years by the Pahlavi government. Khamenei was a mainstream figure in the Iranian Revolution, and upon its success, held many posts in the newly established Islamic republic. In the aftermath of the revolution, he was the target of an attempted assassination that paralysed his right arm. Khamenei served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 during the Iran–Iraq War, when he also developed close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). [1]

=== Early Life ===

Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamaneh was born on 19 April 1939 to Javad Khamenei, an alim and mujtahid born in Najaf, Iraq, and his second wife Khadijeh Mirdamadi (daughter of Hashem Mirdamadi) in Mashhad. He was the sixth of eight children, the third born to his mother. Two of his brothers are also clerics; his younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a newspaper editor and cleric. His elder sister Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died in 2015, aged 89. His father was an ethnic Azerbaijani Turk from Khamaneh. His mother was an ethnic Persian from Yazd. Ali Khamenei's ancestor was Sayyid Hossein Tafreshi, a descendant of the Aftasi Sayyids supposedly reaching to Sultan ul-Ulama Ahmad, known as Sultan Sayyid, a grandchild of the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali al-Sajjad. Some of his ancestors are from Tafresh in today's Markazi Province and migrated from their original home in Tafresh to Khamaneh near Tabriz. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-21 - naharnet.com:443: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise
* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-07-27 - outlet not recorded: The hunt for Khamenei: how CIA and Mossad are trying to trace Mojtaba
* [7] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [8] 2026-07-18 - vestikavkaza.ru: Mojtaba Khamenei: Donald Trump's signatures cannot be trusted
* [9] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [10] 2026-07-10 - outlet not recorded: Iran and U.S. ramp up tit-for-tat strikes as Khamenei laid to rest
* [11] 2026-07-05 - lalibre.be: In Tehran, faithful call for revenge in front of Khamenei's coffin
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [13] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [14] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Iran}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 3, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the title Grand Ayatollah, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His 36-year tenure as supreme leader made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death. Born in Mashhad to the Khamenei family, he studied at a hawza there before settling in Qom in 1958, where he attended the classes of Ruhollah Khomeini. Khamenei became involved in opposition to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was arrested six times before being exiled for three years by the Pahlavi government. Khamenei was a mainstream figure in the Iranian Revolution, and upon its success, held many posts in the newly established Islamic republic. In the aftermath of the revolution, he was the target of an attempted assassination that paralysed his right arm. Khamenei served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 during the Iran–Iraq War, when he also developed close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). - 1787711132.105922
* [2] Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamaneh was born on 19 April 1939 to Javad Khamenei, an alim and mujtahid born in Najaf, Iraq, and his second wife Khadijeh Mirdamadi (daughter of Hashem Mirdamadi) in Mashhad. He was the sixth of eight children, the third born to his mother. Two of his brothers are also clerics; his younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a newspaper editor and cleric. His elder sister Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died in 2015, aged 89. His father was an ethnic Azerbaijani Turk from Khamaneh. His mother was an ethnic Persian from Yazd. Ali Khamenei's ancestor was Sayyid Hossein Tafreshi, a descendant of the Aftasi Sayyids supposedly reaching to Sultan ul-Ulama Ahmad, known as Sultan Sayyid, a grandchild of the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali al-Sajjad. Some of his ancestors are from Tafresh in today's Markazi Province and migrated from their original home in Tafresh to Khamaneh near Tabriz. - 1787711132.105922
* [3] Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - https://www.naharnet.com:443/stories/en/321995-hezbollah-doesn-t-intend-to-cede-ali-al-taher-but-open-to-compromise
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [8] Mojtaba Khamenei: Donald Trump's signatures cannot be trusted - https://vestikavkaza.ru/news/modztaba-hamenei-podpisi-donalda-trampa-doverat-nelza.html
* [11] In Tehran, faithful call for revenge in front of Khamenei's coffin - https://www.lalibre.be/dernieres-depeches/2026/07/04/a-teheran-des-fideles-appellent-a-la-vengeance-devant-le-cercueil-de-khamenei-HWTBXND7YJCITNB4JAMZ3VARG4/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

2026-08-26T02:31:59Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Ukraine

{{Infobox person|name=Volodymyr Zelenskyy|role=Chief of state: President Volodymyr ZELENSKYY (since 20 May 2019)|country=[[Ukraine]]|rows=56|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Volodymyr Zelenskyy''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the 'Garden of Sophia' space - reported by Ukrinform, Ukrainian state|latest=Ukrinform, Ukrainian state}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of [[Ukraine]] since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war with [[Russia]]'s annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022. Born in Kryvyi Rih into a Russian-speaking Jewish family, Zelenskyy obtained a law degree at the city's Institute of Economics, but instead pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. Zelenskyy co-founded the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and television shows including the television series Servant of the People, in which he played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the television show was founded in March 2018 by Zelenskyy and other associates of Kvartal 95. During his campaign in the 2019 presidential election, Zelenskyy positioned himself as anti-establishment and anti-corruption, and had already been a frontrunner in opinion polls months before he declared his candidacy. He won the election with 73.23 percent of the vote in the second round, defeating incumbent president Petro Poroshenko in the biggest landslide in the history of Ukrainian presidential elections. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born into a Jewish family on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a retired engineer, while his father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy – a professor and computer scientist – is the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology. Oleksandr's father, Semyon Zelenskyy, served as an infantryman, reaching the rank of colonel in the Red Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during the Second World War. Semyon's father and three brothers were killed during the Holocaust. Zelenskyy said in March 2022 that, during a massacre, both of Semyon's parents were killed after German troops burned their home to the ground. Oleksandr's mother survived the Second World War after leaving Kryvyi Rih in an evacuation of Jews to Almaty, Kazakh SSR, and returned to [[Ukraine]] after the war. Before starting elementary school, Zelenskyy spent four years in Erdenet, Mongolia, where Oleksandr worked as a mining engineer from the mid-1970s to help build a copper mine, applying his abilities in computer science to mining. Zelenskyy grew up speaking Russian. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the 'Garden of Sophia' space
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the space 'Garden of Sophia'
* [5] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Ukraine’s allies convene in Kyiv as Zelenskyy seeks air defence boost
* [6] 2026-08-23 - gCaptain: Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer
* [7] 2026-08-23 - outlet not recorded: Zelenskyy repeats Ukraine not behind Nord Stream attack
* [8] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: West Bank siege | Inside Iran | Zelenskyy's election challenge | Burnham’s dump crackdown - Channel 4 News | Substack
* [9] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [10] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [11] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Photos: Zelenskyy urges ‘protection of life’ amid deadly Russian attacks
* [12] 2026-07-28 - outlet not recorded: Blurred front lines: Trump meets Zelenskyy as Ukraine, Iran wars collide
* [13] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Ukraine fires 400 drones toward Moscow as Zelenskyy grapples with protests
* [14] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Ukraine}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war with Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022. Born in Kryvyi Rih into a Russian-speaking Jewish family, Zelenskyy obtained a law degree at the city's Institute of Economics, but instead pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. Zelenskyy co-founded the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and television shows including the television series Servant of the People, in which he played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the television show was founded in March 2018 by Zelenskyy and other associates of Kvartal 95. During his campaign in the 2019 presidential election, Zelenskyy positioned himself as anti-establishment and anti-corruption, and had already been a frontrunner in opinion polls months before he declared his candidacy. He won the election with 73.23 percent of the vote in the second round, defeating incumbent president Petro Poroshenko in the biggest landslide in the history of Ukrainian presidential elections. - 1787711095.0428
* [2] Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born into a Jewish family on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a retired engineer, while his father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy – a professor and computer scientist – is the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology. Oleksandr's father, Semyon Zelenskyy, served as an infantryman, reaching the rank of colonel in the Red Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during the Second World War. Semyon's father and three brothers were killed during the Holocaust. Zelenskyy said in March 2022 that, during a massacre, both of Semyon's parents were killed after German troops burned their home to the ground. Oleksandr's mother survived the Second World War after leaving Kryvyi Rih in an evacuation of Jews to Almaty, Kazakh SSR, and returned to Ukraine after the war. Before starting elementary school, Zelenskyy spent four years in Erdenet, Mongolia, where Oleksandr worked as a mining engineer from the mid-1970s to help build a copper mine, applying his abilities in computer science to mining. Zelenskyy grew up speaking Russian. - 1787711095.0428
* [3] Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the 'Garden of Sophia' space - https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/4157700-volodimir-ta-olena-zelenski-vidvidali-prostir-sad-sofijnosti.html
* [4] Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the space 'Garden of Sophia' - https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/4157700-volodimir-ta-olena-zelenski-vidvidali-prostir-sad-sofijnosti.html
* [5] Ukraine’s allies convene in Kyiv as Zelenskyy seeks air defence boost - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/24/ukraines-allies-convene-in-kyiv-as-zelenskyy-seeks-air-defence-boost?traffic_source=rss
* [6] Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer - https://gcaptain.com/zelenskyy-says-putin-rejected-black-sea-shipping-truce-offer/
* [9] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Vladimir Putin

2026-08-26T02:31:59Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Russia

{{Infobox person|name=Vladimir Putin|role=Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012)|country=[[Russia]]|rows=64|asof=2026-08-23|image=}}

'''Vladimir Putin''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-23|summary=Most recent archived item: Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says - reported by Moscow Times|latest=Moscow Times}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-23}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of [[Russia]] since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia between 2008 and 2012. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996, Putin moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August 1999. Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became acting president and, less than three months later in March 2000, was elected to his first term as president. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, known as Saint Petersburg since 1991, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He is the youngest of three children born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Putin's birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. Putin's mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. During the early stage of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in 1942. Putin's maternal grandmother was killed by the German occupiers of the Tver region in 1941, and his maternal uncles disappeared on the Eastern Front during World War II. [2]

=== Career ===

Putin's political rise began in the Saint Petersburg administration (1990–1996), where in May 1990, he was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to Mayor Anatoly Sobchak. Shortly thereafter, in June 1991, he became the head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, overseeing the promotion of international ties, foreign investment, and the registration of business ventures. Though his tenure was marred by investigations from the city legislative council concerning discrepancies in asset valuation and the export of metals, Putin retained his position until 1996. During the mid-1990s, he expanded his responsibilities in Saint Petersburg, serving as first deputy head of the city administration and leading the local branch of the pro-government political party Our Home Is [[Russia]], as well as participating in advisory roles with regional newspapers. Transitioning to the national scene in 1996, Putin was called to Moscow following the electoral defeat of Sobchak, where he assumed the role of Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing the transfer of former Soviet assets to the Russian Federation. His career in Moscow advanced rapidly with his appointment in 1997 as deputy chief of the Presidential Staff and later as chief of the Main Control Directorate of the same department. A pivotal moment came in 1998 when President Boris Yeltsin appointed him director of the FSB, Russia's primary intelligence and security agency. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-23 - Moscow Times: Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says
* [5] 2026-08-23 - gCaptain: Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer
* [6] 2026-08-23 - Moscow Times: Putin Says Ukraine Opened ‘Pandora's Box’ With Strikes on Economic Targets
* [7] 2026-08-12 - outlet not recorded: Putin warns of tit-for-tat seizures of European vessels
* [8] 2026-07-23 - outlet not recorded: The West's plan to pressure Putin has a glaring flaw
* [9] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [10] 2026-07-08 - outlet not recorded: On St. John of Damascus’ Magnum Opus - St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
* [11] 2026-07-05 - outlet not recorded: With Putin visibly weakened, now is the time to back Ukraine
* [12] 2026-07-02 - outlet not recorded: Facing New Pressure From Ukraine, Putin Signals Intent to Dig In
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-30 - outlet not recorded: Ukraine’s blockade of Crimea puts Putin’s greatest victory under threat
* [15] 2026-06-29 - outlet not recorded: Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Russia}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia between 2008 and 2012. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996, Putin moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August 1999. Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became acting president and, less than three months later in March 2000, was elected to his first term as president. - 1787711053.031003
* [2] Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, known as Saint Petersburg since 1991, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He is the youngest of three children born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Putin's birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. Putin's mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. During the early stage of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in 1942. Putin's maternal grandmother was killed by the German occupiers of the Tver region in 1941, and his maternal uncles disappeared on the Eastern Front during World War II. - 1787711053.031003
* [3] Putin's political rise began in the Saint Petersburg administration (1990–1996), where in May 1990, he was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to Mayor Anatoly Sobchak. Shortly thereafter, in June 1991, he became the head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, overseeing the promotion of international ties, foreign investment, and the registration of business ventures. Though his tenure was marred by investigations from the city legislative council concerning discrepancies in asset valuation and the export of metals, Putin retained his position until 1996. During the mid-1990s, he expanded his responsibilities in Saint Petersburg, serving as first deputy head of the city administration and leading the local branch of the pro-government political party Our Home Is Russia, as well as participating in advisory roles with regional newspapers. Transitioning to the national scene in 1996, Putin was called to Moscow following the electoral defeat of Sobchak, where he assumed the role of Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing the transfer of former Soviet assets to the Russian Federation. His career in Moscow advanced rapidly with his appointment in 1997 as deputy chief of the Presidential Staff and later as chief of the Main Control Directorate of the same department. A pivotal moment came in 1998 when President Boris Yeltsin appointed him director of the FSB, Russia's primary intelligence and security agency. - 1787711053.031003
* [4] Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/23/putin-wants-to-draft-300k-new-troops-zelensky-says-a93562
* [5] Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer - https://gcaptain.com/zelenskyy-says-putin-rejected-black-sea-shipping-truce-offer/
* [6] Putin Says Ukraine Opened ‘Pandora's Box’ With Strikes on Economic Targets - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/23/putin-says-ukraine-opened-pandoras-box-with-strikes-on-economic-targets-a93560

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:People]]

Xi Jinping

2026-08-26T02:31:58Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from China

{{Infobox person|name=Xi Jinping|role=Chief of state: President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013)|country=[[China]]|rows=64|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Xi Jinping''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Xi Jinping (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of [[China]]. He has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and as the president of China and chairman of the State Central Military Commission since 2013. The elder son of Xi Zhongxun's second marriage to Qi Xin, Xi was born in Beijing. He is considered a princeling but kept a low-key image in his early career. As a teenager, his father was purged, and he was sent down to the rural village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi, during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong there, joined the CCP after several failed attempts, and served as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the party ranks. He served as governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002 before serving as governor and party secretary of Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Xi Jinping was born on 15 June 1953 in Beijing as the third child of Xi Zhongxun and his second wife Qi Xin. A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revolutionary, Xi's father held a series of posts after the founding of the People's Republic of [[China]] in 1949, including head of the Party Publicity Department, vice premier, and vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Xi has two older sisters, Qi Qiaoqiao, born in 1949, and Qi An'an (齐安安), born in 1952. Xi's father was from Fuping County, Shaanxi. Xi went to Beijing Bayi School, where students were primarily the children of high-ranking military officials. In 1963, when Xi was ten years old, his father was purged from the CCP and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. Following the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Xi was persecuted due to his father's status. Student militants ransacked the Xi family home. [2]

=== Leadership ===

Political observers have called Xi the most powerful Chinese leader since Chairman Mao Zedong, especially since the ending of presidential two-term limits in 2018. Xi has departed from the CCP's previous collective leadership practices. Observers have said that Xi has seriously diluted the influence of the once-dominant Tuanpai, also called the Youth League Faction, which were CCP officials who rose through the Communist Youth League (CYLC). Xi has had a cult of personality constructed around himself since entering office with books, cartoons, pop songs and dance routines honouring his rule. Xi's cult of personality has been especially pronounced in Xinjiang. In 2016, the sixth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee officially announced Xi as the leadership core, making him the fourth leader to have been given this designation after Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin; Hu Jintao was never given this designation. Xi was re-elected as general secretary and CMC chairman by the 19th Central Committee after the 19th Party National Congress, held between 18 and 24 October 2017; the 19th Politburo was noted for containing no potential successor. In March 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress passed constitutional amendments including removal of term limits for the president and vice president, the creation of a National Supervisory Commission, as well as codifying the leading role of the CCP. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [7] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [8] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [9] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [15] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=China}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 3, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Xi Jinping (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of China. He has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and as the president of China and chairman of the State Central Military Commission since 2013. The elder son of Xi Zhongxun's second marriage to Qi Xin, Xi was born in Beijing. He is considered a princeling but kept a low-key image in his early career. As a teenager, his father was purged, and he was sent down to the rural village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi, during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong there, joined the CCP after several failed attempts, and served as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the party ranks. He served as governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002 before serving as governor and party secretary of Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. - 1787710612.252384
* [2] Xi Jinping was born on 15 June 1953 in Beijing as the third child of Xi Zhongxun and his second wife Qi Xin. A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revolutionary, Xi's father held a series of posts after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, including head of the Party Publicity Department, vice premier, and vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Xi has two older sisters, Qi Qiaoqiao, born in 1949, and Qi An'an (齐安安), born in 1952. Xi's father was from Fuping County, Shaanxi. Xi went to Beijing Bayi School, where students were primarily the children of high-ranking military officials. In 1963, when Xi was ten years old, his father was purged from the CCP and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. Following the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Xi was persecuted due to his father's status. Student militants ransacked the Xi family home. - 1787710612.252384
* [3] Political observers have called Xi the most powerful Chinese leader since Chairman Mao Zedong, especially since the ending of presidential two-term limits in 2018. Xi has departed from the CCP's previous collective leadership practices. Observers have said that Xi has seriously diluted the influence of the once-dominant Tuanpai, also called the Youth League Faction, which were CCP officials who rose through the Communist Youth League (CYLC). Xi has had a cult of personality constructed around himself since entering office with books, cartoons, pop songs and dance routines honouring his rule. Xi's cult of personality has been especially pronounced in Xinjiang. In 2016, the sixth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee officially announced Xi as the leadership core, making him the fourth leader to have been given this designation after Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin; Hu Jintao was never given this designation. Xi was re-elected as general secretary and CMC chairman by the 19th Central Committee after the 19th Party National Congress, held between 18 and 24 October 2017; the 19th Politburo was noted for containing no potential successor. In March 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress passed constitutional amendments including removal of term limits for the president and vice president, the creation of a National Supervisory Commission, as well as codifying the leading role of the CCP. - 1787710612.252384
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Syria

2026-08-26T02:30:16Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 14 items shown, 2 provenance group(s), 2026-02-27..2026-08-25

{{Hatnote|text=This page covers Syria as the archive records it. Related and overlapping: [[Gaza]] and [[Israel, Palestine and Syria]].}}

{{Infobox place|name=Syria|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=89|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:syria-flag.png|thumb|220px|Syria flag. (Modification by AnonMoos of PD image File:Flag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963).svg (previous non-vector versions were by Coup de crayon 2011), Public domain)]][[File:syria-map.png|thumb|220px|Syria locator map. (L'Américain, CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Syria''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Head of Kurdish forces in Syria announces their dissolution - reported by Middle East Eye|latest=Middle East Eye}}

{{Coverage note|rows=14|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

=== Intl ===
* [1] 2026-08-20 - Long War Journal: Israel strikes military airbase in Syria while warning Turkey

=== Israel ===
* [2] 2026-08-23 - Jerusalem Post: Mossad chief, Syria FM hold positive de-escalation talks after Israeli airbase strike, source says

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Head of Kurdish forces in Syria announces their dissolution
* [4] 2026-08-24 - US State Department: Rescission of Syria’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
* [5] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Netanyahu's office: Syria risked status quo
* [6] 2026-08-04 - kikar.co.il: 12 km from Israel: Grad missile arsenal revealed in Syria
* [7] 2026-07-25 - outlet not recorded: UN chief says situation in Syria's Golan area 'unacceptable'
* [8] 2026-07-09 - outlet not recorded: Is Syria stable enough to engage with the world?
* [9] 2026-07-06 - outlet not recorded: Syria’s New Parliament: Networks of War, Politics of Appointment, and the Illusion of Representation
* [10] 2026-07-03 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon Back on Syria’s Agenda - Al-Akhbar English
* [11] 2026-07-02 - outlet not recorded: Diplomatic Shifts: Syria and Hezbollah's Possible Engagement
* [12] 2026-07-02 - outlet not recorded: Syria appoints new parliament as Israel tensions continue
* [13] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: “Dear Syria … ”
* [14] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* ...and 75 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

After World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]]. [15]

The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary around the 11th millennium BC and became one of the centers of Neolithic culture (known as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), where agriculture and cattle breeding first began to appear. [16]

The French administered the area until granting it independence in 1946. [17]

The site of Tell Qaramel has several round stone towers dated to 10650 BC, making them the oldest structures of this kind in the world. [18]

The new country lacked political stability and experienced a series of military coups. [19]

The Neolithic period (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is represented by rectangular houses of Mureybet culture. At the time, people used containers made of stone, gyps, and burnt lime (Vaisselle blanche). The discovery of obsidian tools from Anatolia are evidence of early trade. The ancient cities of Hamoukar and Emar played an important role during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] was one of the most ancient on earth, perhaps preceded by only that of Mesopotamia. The earliest recorded indigenous civilization in the region was the Kingdom of Ebla near present-day Idlib, northern Syria. [20]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: Ahmad al-Shara'; former President Bashar al-[[Bashar al-Assad|ASAD]] was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024 Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad al-BASHIR (since 8 December 2024) [21]

=== Geography ===

Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between [[Lebanon]] and [[Turkey]] Area: 187,437 sq km Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower [22]

=== Climate ===

Climate: mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus [23]

=== Culture ===

[[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] is a traditional society with a long cultural history. Importance is placed on family, religion, education, self-discipline and respect. [24]

Ethnic groups: Arab ~50%, Alawite ~15%, Kurd ~10%, Levantine ~10%, other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian) [25]

Syrians' taste for the traditional arts is expressed in dances such as the al-Samah, the Dabkeh in all their variations, and the sword dance. [26]

Languages: Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, French, English [27]

Marriage ceremonies and the births of children are occasions for the lively demonstration of folk customs. [28]

Religions: Muslim 87% (official; includes Sunni 74% and Alawi, Ismaili, and Shia 13%), Christian 10% (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian), Druze 3% [29]

Syrian cuisine is rich and varied in its ingredients, linked to the regions where a specific dish has originated. Syrian food mostly consists of southern Mediterranean, Greek, and Southwest Asian dishes. Some Syrian dishes also evolved from Turkish and French cooking: dishes like shish kebab, stuffed zucchini/courgette, and yabraʾ (stuffed grape leaves, the word yabraʾ deriving from the Turkish word yaprak, meaning leaf). The main dishes are kibbeh, hummus, tabbouleh, fattoush, labneh, shawarma, mujaddara, shanklish, pastırma, sujuk and baklava. [30]

=== Government ===

Government type: transitional presidential republic Capital: Damascus Legal system: mixed system of civil and Islamic (sharia) law (for family courts) [31]

=== Demographics ===

Most people live in the Euphrates River valley and along the coastal plain, a fertile strip between the coastal mountains and the desert. [32]

Population: 24,261,882 (2025 est.) Median age: 24.5 years (2025 est.) [33]

Overall population density before the civil war was about 99 per square kilometre (258 per square mile). According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U.S. [34]

Urbanization: 57.4% of total population (2023) [35]

Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] hosted a population of refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 1,852,300. [36]

Major urban areas: 2.585 million DAMASCUS (capital), 2.203 million Aleppo, 1.443 million Hims (Homs), 996,000 Hamah (2023) Life expectancy: 74.8 years (2024 est.) [37]

The vast majority of this population was from Iraq (1,300,000), but sizeable populations from Palestine (543,400) and Somalia (5,200) also lived in the country. In what the UN has described as "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era", by 2014 about 9.5 million Syrians, half the population, had been displaced since March 2011; 4 million were outside the country as refugees. [38]

Literacy: 94.4% (2021 est.) [39]

By 2020, the UN estimated that over 5.5 million Syrians were living as refugees in the region, and 6.1 million others were internally displaced. Syrians are an overall indigenous Levantine people, closely related to their immediate neighbors, such as Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians and Jews. [40]

=== Military ===

Branches: the interim government authorities in [[Israel, Palestine and Syria|Syria]] have established a Ministry of Defense and are attempting to unify the dozens of armed factions operating in Syria under a single, state-linked army; it has also established a Ministry of Interior to manage police and other security forces (2025) Personnel: not available Equipment: the military forces of Syria are equipped with Russian and Soviet-era armaments (2025) [41]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Syria|Timeline: Syria]] · [[Turkey]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 11 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — sources changed (11 → 0)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — +14 source(s), Intl, Israel added
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-25 — +1 source(s)
* rev 8, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — +2 source(s)
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — +11 source(s)
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 12, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 13, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 14, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 15, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 16, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 17, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Israel strikes military airbase in Syria while warning Turkey - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653124.744552/
* [2] Mossad chief, Syria FM hold positive de-escalation talks after Israeli airbase strike, source says - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653124.744441/
* [3] Head of Kurdish forces in Syria announces their dissolution - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/head-kurdish-forces-syria-announces-their-dissolution
* [4] Rescission of Syria’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653124.744685/
* [6] 12 km from Israel: Grad missile arsenal revealed in Syria - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653856.551351/
* [15] Background: After World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. - 1787695277.227722
* [16] The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary around the 11th millennium BC and became one of the centers of Neolithic culture (known as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), where agriculture and cattle breeding first began to appear. - 1787707535.19268
* [17] Background: The French administered the area until granting it independence in 1946. - 1787695277.227722
* [18] The site of Tell Qaramel has several round stone towers dated to 10650 BC, making them the oldest structures of this kind in the world. - 1787707535.19268
* [19] Background: The new country lacked political stability and experienced a series of military coups. - 1787695277.227722
* [20] The Neolithic period (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is represented by rectangular houses of Mureybet culture. At the time, people used containers made of stone, gyps, and burnt lime (Vaisselle blanche). The discovery of obsidian tools from Anatolia are evidence of early trade. The ancient cities of Hamoukar and Emar played an important role during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in Syria was one of the most ancient on earth, perhaps preceded by only that of Mesopotamia. The earliest recorded indigenous civilization in the region was the Kingdom of Ebla near present-day Idlib, northern Syria. - 1787707535.19268
* [21] Chief of state: Ahmad al-Shara'; former President Bashar al-ASAD was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024 Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad al-BASHIR (since 8 December 2024) - 1787695277.227722
* [22] Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey Area: 187,437 sq km Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower - 1787695277.227722
* [23] Climate: mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus - 1787695277.227722
* [24] Syria is a traditional society with a long cultural history. Importance is placed on family, religion, education, self-discipline and respect. - 1787707535.19268
* [25] Ethnic groups: Arab ~50%, Alawite ~15%, Kurd ~10%, Levantine ~10%, other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian) - 1787695277.227722
* [26] Syrians' taste for the traditional arts is expressed in dances such as the al-Samah, the Dabkeh in all their variations, and the sword dance. - 1787707535.19268
* [27] Languages: Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, French, English - 1787695277.227722
* [28] Marriage ceremonies and the births of children are occasions for the lively demonstration of folk customs. - 1787707535.19268
* [29] Religions: Muslim 87% (official; includes Sunni 74% and Alawi, Ismaili, and Shia 13%), Christian 10% (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian), Druze 3% - 1787695277.227722
* [30] Syrian cuisine is rich and varied in its ingredients, linked to the regions where a specific dish has originated. Syrian food mostly consists of southern Mediterranean, Greek, and Southwest Asian dishes. Some Syrian dishes also evolved from Turkish and French cooking: dishes like shish kebab, stuffed zucchini/courgette, and yabraʾ (stuffed grape leaves, the word yabraʾ deriving from the Turkish word yaprak, meaning leaf). The main dishes are kibbeh, hummus, tabbouleh, fattoush, labneh, shawarma, mujaddara, shanklish, pastırma, sujuk and baklava. - 1787707535.19268
* [31] Government type: transitional presidential republic Capital: Damascus Legal system: mixed system of civil and Islamic (sharia) law (for family courts) - 1787695277.227722
* [32] Most people live in the Euphrates River valley and along the coastal plain, a fertile strip between the coastal mountains and the desert. - 1787707535.19268
* [33] Population: 24,261,882 (2025 est.) Median age: 24.5 years (2025 est.) - 1787695277.227722
* [34] Overall population density before the civil war was about 99 per square kilometre (258 per square mile). According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U.S. - 1787707535.19268
* [35] Urbanization: 57.4% of total population (2023) - 1787695277.227722
* [36] Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Syria hosted a population of refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 1,852,300. - 1787707535.19268
* [37] Major urban areas: 2.585 million DAMASCUS (capital), 2.203 million Aleppo, 1.443 million Hims (Homs), 996,000 Hamah (2023) Life expectancy: 74.8 years (2024 est.) - 1787695277.227722
* [38] The vast majority of this population was from Iraq (1,300,000), but sizeable populations from Palestine (543,400) and Somalia (5,200) also lived in the country. In what the UN has described as "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era", by 2014 about 9.5 million Syrians, half the population, had been displaced since March 2011; 4 million were outside the country as refugees. - 1787707535.19268
* [39] Literacy: 94.4% (2021 est.) - 1787695277.227722
* [40] By 2020, the UN estimated that over 5.5 million Syrians were living as refugees in the region, and 6.1 million others were internally displaced. Syrians are an overall indigenous Levantine people, closely related to their immediate neighbors, such as Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians and Jews. - 1787707535.19268
* [41] Branches: the interim government authorities in Syria have established a Ministry of Defense and are attempting to unify the dozens of armed factions operating in Syria under a single, state-linked army; it has also established a Ministry of Interior to manage police and other security forces (2025) Personnel: not available Equipment: the military forces of Syria are equipped with Russian and Soviet-era armaments (2025) - 1787695277.227722

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Iran

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{{Infobox place|name=Iran|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=90|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:iran-flag.png|thumb|220px|Iran flag. (SVG file: SiBr4Designer: Hamid NadimiConstruction: ISIRI, Public domain)]][[File:iran-map.png|thumb|220px|Iran locator map. (P30Carl, CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Iran''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Iran vows to retaliate after US widens sanctions - reported by Al-Monitor|latest=Al-Monitor}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-26 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: Iran vows to retaliate after US widens sanctions
* [2] 2026-08-24 - IRNA, Iranian state: Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran
* [3] 2026-08-24 - Middle East Eye: Iran blacklists 45 tankers in Hormuz escalation
* [4] 2026-07-28 - outlet not recorded: Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars
* [5] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [6] 2026-06-18 - outlet not recorded: Time to Repeal INARA and Move Forward with the Iran MoU
* [7] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* [8] 2026-06-06 - ynet.co.il: Gaza is a step away from catastrophe
* [9] 2026-05-08 - outlet not recorded: Helvetian hypocrisy and Iran
* [10] 2026-05-07 - outlet not recorded: Teach About Iran | CFR Education Blog
* [11] 2026-05-01 - outlet not recorded: Recalling Damascus on the Hudson
* [12] 2026-04-26 - outlet not recorded: Iran and U.S. Sink Into Awkward Limbo of ‘No War, No Peace’
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and Shah Mohammad Reza PAHLAVI was forced into exile. [13]

The earliest known presence of hominins in Iran dates to around 800,000 years ago, in the Middle Paleolithic. [14]

Conservative clerical forces led by Ayatollah Ruhollah KHOMEINI established a theocratic system of government with ultimate political authority vested in a religious scholar known as the Supreme Leader, who is accountable only to the Assembly of Experts -- an elected 88-member body of clerics. [15]

Many Middle Paleolithic sites have been discovered, mainly in the Zagros Mountains in western Iran and some sites associated with Neanderthals. [16]

US-Iran relations became strained when Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979 and held embassy personnel hostage until mid-January 1981. [17]

The Zarzian culture is documented in Iran during the Epipaleolithic (25,000–11,500 years ago). Agriculture first appeared in Iran some 12,000 years ago alongside better-documented settlements in the Fertile Crescent. The Chogha Golan site featured early domestication of emmer wheat. The contemporary site of Ganj Dareh also features the earliest known domestication of goats around 10,000 years ago. The ancient city of Susa, which would become the capital of Elam and later a capital city of the Achaemenid empire, was first settled in 4400–4200 BC, adjacent to the modern site of Shush, Iran. The Kura–Araxes culture (c. 3400 – c. 2000 BC) existed in northwestern Iran and the Caucasus. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-[[Ali Khamenei|KHAMENEI]] (since 4 June 1989) Head of government: President [[Masoud Pezeshkian|Masoud PEZESHKIAN]] (since 30 July 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and [[Pakistan]] Area: 1,648,195 sq km Terrain: rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc, sulfur [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along Caspian coast [21]

=== Culture ===

Iran has one of the richest art heritages in history and been strong in many media including architecture, painting, literature, music, metalworking, stonemasonry, weaving, calligraphy and sculpture. At different times, influences from neighboring civilizations have been important, and latterly Persian art gave and received major influences as part of the wider styles of Islamic art. [22]

Ethnic groups: Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, Baloch, Arab, Turkmen, and Turkic tribes [23]

From the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), the courts of successive dynasties led the style of Persian art, and court-sponsored art left many of the most impressive pieces that remain. [24]

Languages: Persian Farsi (official), Azeri and other Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, Arabic [25]

The Islamic style of dense decoration, geometrically laid out, developed in Iran into an elegant and harmonious style, combining motifs derived from plants with Chinese motifs such as the cloud-band, and often animals represented at a smaller scale. During the Safavid Empire in the 16th century, this style was used across a variety of media, and diffused from the court artists of the king, most being painters. [26]

Religions: Muslim (official) 98.5%, Christian 0.7%, Baha'i 0.3%, agnostic 0.3%, other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Hindu) 0.2% (2020 est.) [27]

By the time of the Sasanians, Iranian art had a renaissance. During the Middle Ages, Sasanian art played a prominent role in the formation of European and Asian mediaeval art. The Safavid era is known as the Golden Age of Iranian art. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: theocratic republic Capital: Tehran Legal system: religious system based on secular and Islamic law [29]

=== Demographics ===

Iran's population grew rapidly from about 19 million in 1956 to about 85 million by February 2023. [30]

Population: 89,177,357 (2025 est.) [31]

Iran's fertility rate has dropped dramatically, from 6.5 children born per woman to about 1.7 two decades later, leading to a population growth rate of about 1.39% in 2018. [32]

Median age: 35.2 years (2025 est.) [33]

Due to its young population, studies project that the growth will continue to slow until it stabilises at around 105 million by 2050. [34]

Urbanization: 77.3% of total population (2023) [35]

Iran hosts one of the largest refugee populations, with almost one million, mostly from Afghanistan and Iraq. [36]

Major urban areas: 9.500 million TEHRAN (capital), 3.368 million Mashhad, 2.258 million Esfahan, 1.721 million Shiraz, 1.661 million Tabriz, 1.594 million Karaj (2023) [37]

As of 2025, Iran was home to an estimated four million Afghan migrants and refugees. [38]

Life expectancy: 75.6 years (2024 est.) [39]

According to the Iranian Constitution, the government is required to provide every citizen with access to social security, covering retirement, unemployment, old age, disability, accidents, calamities, health and medical treatment and care services. [40]

Literacy: 86% (2016 est.) [41]

This is covered by tax revenues and income derived from public contributions. Iran has one of the highest urban growth rates in the world. [42]

=== Military ===

Branches: the military forces of Iran are divided between the Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (Artesh) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Sepah):; Artesh: Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Air Force, Air Defense Forces; IRGC: Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Aerospace Force (controls strategic missile force), Qods Force (aka Quds Force; special operations), Cyber Electronic Command, Basij Paramilitary Forces; Ministry of Interior: Law Enforcement Command (FARAJA); Ministry of Intelligence and Security (2025) Expenditures: 2% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: information varies; up to 600,000 total active armed forces personnel; estimated 400,000 Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (350,000 Ground Forces; 18,000 Navy; 40,000 Air Force/Air Defense Forces); up to estimated 190,000 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (100-150,000 Ground Forces; 20,000 Navy; 15,000 Aerospace Force; 5,000 Qods Force); estimated 90,000 active Basij Paramilitary Forces (2025) Equipment: the Iranian military's inventory includes a mix of domestically produced and foreign equipment largely of Chinese, Russian/Soviet, and US origin (US equipment acquired prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979); it also has some military equipment from North Korea such as midget submarines and ballistic missiles; in recent years, Iran has received some newer equipment from [[Russia]]; Iran has a defense industry with the capacity to develop, produce, support, and sustain air, land, missile, and naval weapons programs (2025) [43]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Iran|Timeline: Iran]] · [[Sanctions]] · [[Strait of Hormuz]] · [[Pakistan]] · [[Gaza]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 12 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +5 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — sources changed (16 → 12)
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — +6 source(s)
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
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* rev 12, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 13, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 14, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 15, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 16, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Iran vows to retaliate after US widens sanctions - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653856.55261/
* [2] Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787686101.586531/
* [3] Iran blacklists 45 tankers in Hormuz escalation - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787686101.587316/
* [8] Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040124/
* [13] Background: Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and Shah Mohammad Reza PAHLAVI was forced into exile. - 1787695007.498618
* [14] The earliest known presence of hominins in Iran dates to around 800,000 years ago, in the Middle Paleolithic. - 1787707247.191038
* [15] Background: Conservative clerical forces led by Ayatollah Ruhollah KHOMEINI established a theocratic system of government with ultimate political authority vested in a religious scholar known as the Supreme Leader, who is accountable only to the Assembly of Experts -- an elected 88-member body of clerics. - 1787695007.498618
* [16] Many Middle Paleolithic sites have been discovered, mainly in the Zagros Mountains in western Iran and some sites associated with Neanderthals. - 1787707247.191038
* [17] Background: US-Iran relations became strained when Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979 and held embassy personnel hostage until mid-January 1981. - 1787695007.498618
* [18] The Zarzian culture is documented in Iran during the Epipaleolithic (25,000–11,500 years ago). Agriculture first appeared in Iran some 12,000 years ago alongside better-documented settlements in the Fertile Crescent. The Chogha Golan site featured early domestication of emmer wheat. The contemporary site of Ganj Dareh also features the earliest known domestication of goats around 10,000 years ago. The ancient city of Susa, which would become the capital of Elam and later a capital city of the Achaemenid empire, was first settled in 4400–4200 BC, adjacent to the modern site of Shush, Iran. The Kura–Araxes culture (c. 3400 – c. 2000 BC) existed in northwestern Iran and the Caucasus. - 1787707247.191038
* [19] Chief of state: Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989) Head of government: President Masoud PEZESHKIAN (since 30 July 2024) - 1787695007.498618
* [20] Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan Area: 1,648,195 sq km Terrain: rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc, sulfur - 1787695007.498618
* [21] Climate: mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along Caspian coast - 1787695007.498618
* [22] Iran has one of the richest art heritages in history and been strong in many media including architecture, painting, literature, music, metalworking, stonemasonry, weaving, calligraphy and sculpture. At different times, influences from neighboring civilizations have been important, and latterly Persian art gave and received major influences as part of the wider styles of Islamic art. - 1787707247.191038
* [23] Ethnic groups: Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, Baloch, Arab, Turkmen, and Turkic tribes - 1787695007.498618
* [24] From the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), the courts of successive dynasties led the style of Persian art, and court-sponsored art left many of the most impressive pieces that remain. - 1787707247.191038
* [25] Languages: Persian Farsi (official), Azeri and other Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, Arabic - 1787695007.498618
* [26] The Islamic style of dense decoration, geometrically laid out, developed in Iran into an elegant and harmonious style, combining motifs derived from plants with Chinese motifs such as the cloud-band, and often animals represented at a smaller scale. During the Safavid Empire in the 16th century, this style was used across a variety of media, and diffused from the court artists of the king, most being painters. - 1787707247.191038
* [27] Religions: Muslim (official) 98.5%, Christian 0.7%, Baha'i 0.3%, agnostic 0.3%, other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Hindu) 0.2% (2020 est.) - 1787695007.498618
* [28] By the time of the Sasanians, Iranian art had a renaissance. During the Middle Ages, Sasanian art played a prominent role in the formation of European and Asian mediaeval art. The Safavid era is known as the Golden Age of Iranian art. - 1787707247.191038
* [29] Government type: theocratic republic Capital: Tehran Legal system: religious system based on secular and Islamic law - 1787695007.498618
* [30] Iran's population grew rapidly from about 19 million in 1956 to about 85 million by February 2023. - 1787707247.191038
* [31] Population: 89,177,357 (2025 est.) - 1787695007.498618
* [32] Iran's fertility rate has dropped dramatically, from 6.5 children born per woman to about 1.7 two decades later, leading to a population growth rate of about 1.39% in 2018. - 1787707247.191038
* [33] Median age: 35.2 years (2025 est.) - 1787695007.498618
* [34] Due to its young population, studies project that the growth will continue to slow until it stabilises at around 105 million by 2050. - 1787707247.191038
* [35] Urbanization: 77.3% of total population (2023) - 1787695007.498618
* [36] Iran hosts one of the largest refugee populations, with almost one million, mostly from Afghanistan and Iraq. - 1787707247.191038
* [37] Major urban areas: 9.500 million TEHRAN (capital), 3.368 million Mashhad, 2.258 million Esfahan, 1.721 million Shiraz, 1.661 million Tabriz, 1.594 million Karaj (2023) - 1787695007.498618
* [38] As of 2025, Iran was home to an estimated four million Afghan migrants and refugees. - 1787707247.191038
* [39] Life expectancy: 75.6 years (2024 est.) - 1787695007.498618
* [40] According to the Iranian Constitution, the government is required to provide every citizen with access to social security, covering retirement, unemployment, old age, disability, accidents, calamities, health and medical treatment and care services. - 1787707247.191038
* [41] Literacy: 86% (2016 est.) - 1787695007.498618
* [42] This is covered by tax revenues and income derived from public contributions. Iran has one of the highest urban growth rates in the world. - 1787707247.191038
* [43] Branches: the military forces of Iran are divided between the Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (Artesh) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Sepah):; Artesh: Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Air Force, Air Defense Forces; IRGC: Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Aerospace Force (controls strategic missile force), Qods Force (aka Quds Force; special operations), Cyber Electronic Command, Basij Paramilitary Forces; Ministry of Interior: Law Enforcement Command (FARAJA); Ministry of Intelligence and Security (2025) Expenditures: 2% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: information varies; up to 600,000 total active armed forces personnel; estimated 400,000 Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (350,000 Ground Forces; 18,000 Navy; 40,000 Air Force/Air Defense Forces); up to estimated 190,000 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (100-150,000 Ground Forces; 20,000 Navy; 15,000 Aerospace Force; 5,000 Qods Force); estimated 90,000 active Basij Paramilitary Forces (2025) Equipment: the Iranian military's inventory includes a mix of domestically produced and foreign equipment largely of Chinese, Russian/Soviet, and US origin (US equipment acquired prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979); it also has some military equipment from North Korea such as midget submarines and ballistic missiles; in recent years, Iran has received some newer equipment from Russia; Iran has a defense industry with the capacity to develop, produce, support, and sustain air, land, missile, and naval weapons programs (2025) - 1787695007.498618

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background sources: CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:Conflicts]]

Russia

2026-08-26T02:30:15Z

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{{Infobox place|name=Russia|type=Place or actor|region=russia ukraine|rows=90|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:russia-flag.png|thumb|220px|Russia flag. (Peter the Great, Public domain)]][[File:russia-map.png|thumb|220px|Russia locator map. (Ssolbergj, CC BY 3.0)]]}}

'''Russia''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'. - reported by Meduza|latest=Meduza}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-26 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - Meduza: The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'.
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: A new drone was found in Romania after Russia's attack on Ukraine
* [3] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite
* [4] 2026-08-24 - Meduza: Russia struck Odesa. Telegram channels report that the "Epitsentr" hypermarket is on fire.
* [5] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Ukraine must be competitive with Russia in the number of drone strikes - Zelensky
* [6] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Russia to seize poorly protected infrastructure as Ukraine barrage persists
* [7] 2026-08-21 - Africanews: Kyiv residents search through the wreckage after Russia’s deadly barrage
* [8] 2026-08-14 - outlet not recorded: Russia dismisses idea of Black Sea ceasefire
* [9] 2026-07-03 - outlet not recorded: Russia’s triumphant tone shifts as Ukraine deploys ‘asymmetrical tactics’
* [10] 2026-06-29 - outlet not recorded: Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink
* [11] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* [12] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: Russia’s slow defeat – and Australia’s hard lesson
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy emerged from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and gradually conquered and absorbed surrounding principalities. [13]

The earliest evidence of human settlement in Russia dates to the Oldowan period during the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. [14]

In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. [15]

Flint tools, some 1.5 million years old, have been discovered in the North Caucasus. Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195–122,700 years ago. Fossils of Denny, an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, and lived some 90,000 years ago, was also found within the latter cave. Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at Kostyonki–Borshchyovo, and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years ago—both in western Russia. [16]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich [[Vladimir Putin|PUTIN]] (since 7 May 2012) Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) [17]

=== Geography ===

Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean Area: 17,098,242 sq km Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber [18]

=== Climate ===

Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast [19]

=== Culture ===

Russian culture reflects a long, gradual, and complex amalgamation of various elements that coincided with centuries of development, expansion, and interaction with different peoples, artistic movements, and cultures. Russia has heavily influenced classical music, ballet, theatre, mathematics, sport, painting, and cinema. [20]

Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) [21]

Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European literature and thought. [22]

Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) [23]

Russia also made pioneering contributions to science, technology, and space exploration. [24]

Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) [25]

Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 21 of which are cultural, while 31 lie on the tentative list. The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry. The Russian Bear and Mother Russia are often used as national personifications of the country. [26]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential federation Capital: Moscow Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts [27]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) [28]

Russia had an estimated population of 146.0 million in 2025 (143.6 million excluding Crimea and Sevastopol), down from 147.2 million in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth-most populous country in the world. [29]

Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) [30]

With a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/mi2), Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries, with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part. [31]

Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) [32]

The country is highly urbanised, with two-thirds of the population living in urban areas. As of 2025, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.37 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world. [33]

Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) [34]

Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years. Russia's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis. In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration. [35]

=== Military ===

Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as [[Iran]] and North Korea to support its war on [[Ukraine]]; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) [36]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Russia|Timeline: Russia]] · [[Ukraine]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 11 source(s)
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== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691593.267052/
* [2] A new drone was found in Romania after Russia's attack on Ukraine - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787680558.529847/
* [3] Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.228618/
* [4] Russia struck Odesa. Telegram channels report that the "Epitsentr" hypermarket is on fire. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619879/
* [5] Ukraine must be competitive with Russia in the number of drone strikes - Zelensky - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.185872/
* [6] Russia to seize poorly protected infrastructure as Ukraine barrage persists - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688388.715521/
* [7] Kyiv residents search through the wreckage after Russia’s deadly barrage - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688912.432327/
* [13] Background: Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy emerged from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and gradually conquered and absorbed surrounding principalities. - 1787695259.864763
* [14] The earliest evidence of human settlement in Russia dates to the Oldowan period during the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. - 1787707462.730062
* [15] Background: In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Background: Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. - 1787695259.864763
* [16] Flint tools, some 1.5 million years old, have been discovered in the North Caucasus. Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195–122,700 years ago. Fossils of Denny, an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, and lived some 90,000 years ago, was also found within the latter cave. Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at Kostyonki–Borshchyovo, and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years ago—both in western Russia. - 1787707462.730062
* [17] Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) - 1787695259.864763
* [18] Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean Area: 17,098,242 sq km Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber - 1787695259.864763
* [19] Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast - 1787695259.864763
* [20] Russian culture reflects a long, gradual, and complex amalgamation of various elements that coincided with centuries of development, expansion, and interaction with different peoples, artistic movements, and cultures. Russia has heavily influenced classical music, ballet, theatre, mathematics, sport, painting, and cinema. - 1787707462.730062
* [21] Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [22] Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European literature and thought. - 1787707462.730062
* [23] Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [24] Russia also made pioneering contributions to science, technology, and space exploration. - 1787707462.730062
* [25] Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [26] Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 21 of which are cultural, while 31 lie on the tentative list. The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry. The Russian Bear and Mother Russia are often used as national personifications of the country. - 1787707462.730062
* [27] Government type: semi-presidential federation Capital: Moscow Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts - 1787695259.864763
* [28] Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [29] Russia had an estimated population of 146.0 million in 2025 (143.6 million excluding Crimea and Sevastopol), down from 147.2 million in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth-most populous country in the world. - 1787707462.730062
* [30] Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) - 1787695259.864763
* [31] With a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/mi2), Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries, with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part. - 1787707462.730062
* [32] Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) - 1787695259.864763
* [33] The country is highly urbanised, with two-thirds of the population living in urban areas. As of 2025, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.37 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world. - 1787707462.730062
* [34] Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [35] Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years. Russia's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis. In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration. - 1787707462.730062
* [36] Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as Iran and North Korea to support its war on Ukraine; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) - 1787695259.864763

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Masoud Pezeshkian

2026-08-26T02:30:11Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Iran

{{Infobox person|name=Masoud Pezeshkian|role=Head of government: President Masoud PEZESHKIAN (since 30 July 2024)|country=Iran|rows=64|asof=2026-08-23|image=}}

'''Masoud Pezeshkian''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-23|summary=Most recent archived item: Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions - reported by Al Jazeera|latest=Al Jazeera}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-23}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Masoud Pezeshkian (born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and heart surgeon who has served as the ninth president of [[Iran]] since 2024. A member of the reformist faction, he is the oldest person to serve in this position, taking office at the age of 69. Born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, to an Iranian Azerbaijani and Iranian Kurdish family, Pezeshkian graduated from the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences with a degree in medicine and served as a doctor for Iranian soldiers in the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Pezeshkian served as governor of Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties and his political career began in 1997 when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He served as Minister of Health and Medical Education from 2001 to 2005. He was later elected to the parliament five times, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district, from 2008 to 2024. During this time, Pezeshkian was also First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from 2016 to 2020. Prior to the 2024 presidential election, he enrolled himself in two previous elections, the 2013 election, in which he withdrew, and the 2021 election, in which he was rejected from running. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Masoud Pezeshkian was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, on 29 September 1954. His parents, Mohammadali Pezeshkian and Mahboubeh Soudbakhsh, were both from Urmia and had moved to Mahabad for employment before his birth. He spoke both Azeri and Kurdish fluently and was often reported to be of mixed Azeri-Kurdish parentage, although he considered himself and both of his parents as full Turks. In 1973, he received his diploma and moved to Zabol to serve his conscription duty. It was during this time that he became interested in medicine. After completing his service, he returned to his home province, where he entered Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and graduated with a degree in medicine. During the [[Iran]]–Iraq War (1980–1988), Pezeshkian frequently visited the front lines, where he was responsible for sending medical teams and working as a fighter and doctor. He finished his general practitioner course in 1985, and started teaching physiology at the medical college. [2]

=== Career ===

In 1997, Pezeshkian's political career began when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He was the Iranian health minister from 2001 to 2005. In 2003, while health minister, Pezeshkiyan faced an impeachment vote by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, surviving with 170 votes for him, 60 votes against, and 5 abstentions. After completing his term and leaving the ministry, he resumed his medical career in Tabriz. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in five terms, from 2008 to 2024, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr. He served as the first deputy speaker of the parliament from 2016 to 2020. He advocated for education in türk dili (lit. 'Turkish language') to be free in [[Iran]]. In 2016, he was elected as the head of the Fraction of Turkic Regions — itself established to support the right to education in the Turkic languages of Iran, and constituting the first ever ethnocultural political group in Iranian history with representation in the national legislature. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-23 - Al Jazeera: Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions
* [5] 2026-08-22 - outlet not recorded: Pezeshkian claims Iran victory as Trump escalates economic war
* [6] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Shafaq News..Pezeshkian urges political unity to safeguard public welfare - شفق نيوز
* [7] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [8] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [9] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [10] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [11] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [12] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [13] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [14] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [15] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Iran}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Masoud Pezeshkian (born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and heart surgeon who has served as the ninth president of Iran since 2024. A member of the reformist faction, he is the oldest person to serve in this position, taking office at the age of 69. Born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, to an Iranian Azerbaijani and Iranian Kurdish family, Pezeshkian graduated from the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences with a degree in medicine and served as a doctor for Iranian soldiers in the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Pezeshkian served as governor of Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties and his political career began in 1997 when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He served as Minister of Health and Medical Education from 2001 to 2005. He was later elected to the parliament five times, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district, from 2008 to 2024. During this time, Pezeshkian was also First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from 2016 to 2020. Prior to the 2024 presidential election, he enrolled himself in two previous elections, the 2013 election, in which he withdrew, and the 2021 election, in which he was rejected from running. - 1787711241.149486
* [2] Masoud Pezeshkian was born in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, on 29 September 1954. His parents, Mohammadali Pezeshkian and Mahboubeh Soudbakhsh, were both from Urmia and had moved to Mahabad for employment before his birth. He spoke both Azeri and Kurdish fluently and was often reported to be of mixed Azeri-Kurdish parentage, although he considered himself and both of his parents as full Turks. In 1973, he received his diploma and moved to Zabol to serve his conscription duty. It was during this time that he became interested in medicine. After completing his service, he returned to his home province, where he entered Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and graduated with a degree in medicine. During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Pezeshkian frequently visited the front lines, where he was responsible for sending medical teams and working as a fighter and doctor. He finished his general practitioner course in 1985, and started teaching physiology at the medical college. - 1787711241.149486
* [3] In 1997, Pezeshkian's political career began when he joined Mohammad Khatami's administration as Deputy Health Minister. He was the Iranian health minister from 2001 to 2005. In 2003, while health minister, Pezeshkiyan faced an impeachment vote by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, surviving with 170 votes for him, 60 votes against, and 5 abstentions. After completing his term and leaving the ministry, he resumed his medical career in Tabriz. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in five terms, from 2008 to 2024, representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr. He served as the first deputy speaker of the parliament from 2016 to 2020. He advocated for education in türk dili (lit. 'Turkish language') to be free in Iran. In 2016, he was elected as the head of the Fraction of Turkic Regions — itself established to support the right to education in the Turkic languages of Iran, and constituting the first ever ethnocultural political group in Iranian history with representation in the national legislature. - 1787711241.149486
* [4] Pezeshkian says Iran ‘has not become Venezuela’ despite war and sanctions - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653856.552749/
* [7] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [9] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Bashar al-Assad

2026-08-26T02:30:11Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Syria

{{Infobox person|name=Bashar al-Assad|role=Chief of state: Ahmad al-Shara'; former President Bashar al-ASAD was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024|country=Syria|rows=56|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Bashar al-Assad''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - reported by Africanews|latest=Africanews}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-03-15 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000. In the 1980s, Assad became a doctor, and in the early 1990s he was training in London as an ophthalmologist. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel al-Assad died in a car crash, Assad was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent. Assad entered the military academy and in 1998 took charge of the Syrian occupation of [[Lebanon]] begun by his father. On 17 July 2000, Assad became president, succeeding his father, who had died on 10 June 2000. Hopes that the UK-educated Assad would bring reform to Syria and relax the occupation of Lebanon were dashed following a series of crackdowns in 2001–2002 that ended the Damascus Spring, a period defined by calls for transparency and democracy. [1]

=== Presidency ===

After the death of Hafez al-Assad on 10 June 2000, the Constitution of Syria was amended. The minimum age requirement for the presidency was lowered from 40 to 34, which was Bashar's age at the time. The sole candidate of the presidential referendum, Assad was subsequently confirmed president on 10 July 2000, with 97.29% support for his leadership. In line with his role as President of Syria, he was also appointed the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party. A series of state elections were held every seven years which Assad won with overwhelming majority of votes. The elections are unanimously regarded by independent observers as a sham process and boycotted by the opposition. The last two elections – held in 2014 and 2021 – were conducted only in areas controlled by the Syrian government during the country's ongoing civil war and condemned by the United Nations. In the five years before 2011 the government of Bashar consolidated state power over the economy and political system. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Africanews: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list'
* [5] 2026-08-25 - IRNA, Iranian state: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime
* [6] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [7] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [8] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan.
* [9] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [10] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
* [11] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
* [12] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Khaddam recounts final Damascus meeting… Bashar to Hariri: ‘Whoever defies me, I will break his bones’
* [13] 2026-08-21 - naharnet.com:443: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise
* [14] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Israeli Airstrikes Demolish 80 Percent of Syrian Military Infrastructure Post-Assad - streamlinefeed.co.ke
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Syria}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000. In the 1980s, Assad became a doctor, and in the early 1990s he was training in London as an ophthalmologist. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel al-Assad died in a car crash, Assad was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent. Assad entered the military academy and in 1998 took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon begun by his father. On 17 July 2000, Assad became president, succeeding his father, who had died on 10 June 2000. Hopes that the UK-educated Assad would bring reform to Syria and relax the occupation of Lebanon were dashed following a series of crackdowns in 2001–2002 that ended the Damascus Spring, a period defined by calls for transparency and democracy. - 1787711202.395021
* [2] After the death of Hafez al-Assad on 10 June 2000, the Constitution of Syria was amended. The minimum age requirement for the presidency was lowered from 40 to 34, which was Bashar's age at the time. The sole candidate of the presidential referendum, Assad was subsequently confirmed president on 10 July 2000, with 97.29% support for his leadership. In line with his role as President of Syria, he was also appointed the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party. A series of state elections were held every seven years which Assad won with overwhelming majority of votes. The elections are unanimously regarded by independent observers as a sham process and boycotted by the opposition. The last two elections – held in 2014 and 2021 – were conducted only in areas controlled by the Syrian government during the country's ongoing civil war and condemned by the United Nations. In the five years before 2011 the government of Bashar consolidated state power over the economy and political system. - 1787711202.395021
* [3] Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - http://www.africanews.com/2026/08/25/egypt-sufi-muslims-celebrate-mawlid-al-nabawi-in-cairo/
* [4] Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ahmad-al-sharaa-hails-syrias-removal-us-terrorism-list
* [5] Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime - https://en.irna.ir/news/86245877/Hamas-says-destruction-of-UNRWA-building-in-al-Quds-is-war-crime
* [6] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [7] Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [8] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan. - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [9] Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [10] The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [11] The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state - https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/1a1
* [13] Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - https://www.naharnet.com:443/stories/en/321995-hezbollah-doesn-t-intend-to-cede-ali-al-taher-but-open-to-compromise

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

2026-08-26T02:30:10Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Turkey

{{Infobox person|name=Recep Tayyip Erdogan|role=Chief of state: President Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN (since 28 August 2014)|country=Turkey|rows=64|asof=2026-08-21|image=}}

'''Recep Tayyip Erdogan''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-21|summary=Most recent archived item: Turkiye slams Israeli Prime Minister’s Office over remarks targeting President Erdogan - reported by Middle East Monitor|latest=Middle East Monitor}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the president of [[Turkey]] since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2002. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan. Erdoğan was born in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, and studied at the Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, before working as a consultant and senior manager in the private sector. Becoming active in local politics, he was elected Welfare Party's Beyoğlu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 local elections, Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born on 26 February 1954 in Kasımpaşa, Beyoğlu to a modest conservative Muslim family. Erdoğan's family is originally from Adjara, a region in Georgia. Although Erdoğan was reported to have said in 2003 that he was of Georgian origin and that his origins were in Batumi, he later denied this. His parents were Ahmet Erdoğan (1905–1988), a coastguard and sea captain, and Tenzile Erdoğan (née Mutlu; 1924–2011). While Erdoğan attended school in Istanbul, his summer holidays were mostly spent in Güneysu, Rize, where his family originates from. Throughout his life he often returned to this spiritual home, and in 2015 he opened a vast mosque on a mountaintop near this village. The family returned to Istanbul when Erdoğan was 13 years old. As a teenager, Erdoğan's father provided him with a weekly allowance of 2.5 Turkish lira, less than a dollar. [2]

=== Presidency ===

Erdoğan took the oath of office on 28 August 2014 and became the 12th president of [[Turkey]]. He administered the new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's oath on 29 August. When asked about his lower-than-expected 51.79% share of the vote, he allegedly responded, "there were even those who did not like the Prophet. I, however, won 52%". Assuming the role of President, Erdoğan was criticized for openly stating that he would not maintain the tradition of presidential neutrality. Erdoğan has also stated his intention to pursue a more active role as president, such as utilizing the President's rarely used cabinet-calling powers. The political opposition has argued that Erdoğan will continue to pursue his own political agenda, controlling the government, while his new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu would be docile and submissive. Furthermore, the domination of loyal Erdoğan supporters in Davutoğlu's cabinet fuelled speculation that Erdoğan intended to exercise substantial control over the government. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-21 - Middle East Monitor: Turkiye slams Israeli Prime Minister’s Office over remarks targeting President Erdogan
* [5] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [6] 2026-08-20 - patriotpost.us: Victor Davis Hanson : Hating Israel Fatigue
* [7] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [8] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [9] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Israel Evicted Settlers Besieging Palestinian Homes. Hours Later, They Were Back.
* [10] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [11] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-25 - outlet not recorded: Trump claims he stopped ‘great leader’ Erdogan from bringing Turkey into war on Iran’s side
* [15] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Turkey}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2002. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan. Erdoğan was born in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, and studied at the Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, before working as a consultant and senior manager in the private sector. Becoming active in local politics, he was elected Welfare Party's Beyoğlu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 local elections, Erdoğan was elected mayor of Istanbul. - 1787711163.210267
* [2] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was born on 26 February 1954 in Kasımpaşa, Beyoğlu to a modest conservative Muslim family. Erdoğan's family is originally from Adjara, a region in Georgia. Although Erdoğan was reported to have said in 2003 that he was of Georgian origin and that his origins were in Batumi, he later denied this. His parents were Ahmet Erdoğan (1905–1988), a coastguard and sea captain, and Tenzile Erdoğan (née Mutlu; 1924–2011). While Erdoğan attended school in Istanbul, his summer holidays were mostly spent in Güneysu, Rize, where his family originates from. Throughout his life he often returned to this spiritual home, and in 2015 he opened a vast mosque on a mountaintop near this village. The family returned to Istanbul when Erdoğan was 13 years old. As a teenager, Erdoğan's father provided him with a weekly allowance of 2.5 Turkish lira, less than a dollar. - 1787711163.210267
* [3] Erdoğan took the oath of office on 28 August 2014 and became the 12th president of Turkey. He administered the new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's oath on 29 August. When asked about his lower-than-expected 51.79% share of the vote, he allegedly responded, "there were even those who did not like the Prophet. I, however, won 52%". Assuming the role of President, Erdoğan was criticized for openly stating that he would not maintain the tradition of presidential neutrality. Erdoğan has also stated his intention to pursue a more active role as president, such as utilizing the President's rarely used cabinet-calling powers. The political opposition has argued that Erdoğan will continue to pursue his own political agenda, controlling the government, while his new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu would be docile and submissive. Furthermore, the domination of loyal Erdoğan supporters in Davutoğlu's cabinet fuelled speculation that Erdoğan intended to exercise substantial control over the government. - 1787711163.210267
* [4] Turkiye slams Israeli Prime Minister’s Office over remarks targeting President Erdogan - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260821-turkiye-slams-israeli-prime-ministers-office-over-remarks-targeting-president-erdogan/
* [5] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] Victor Davis Hanson : Hating Israel Fatigue - https://patriotpost.us/opinion/130106-hating-israel-fatigue-2026-08-20
* [8] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:People]]

Ali Khamenei

2026-08-26T02:30:10Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Iran

{{Infobox person|name=Ali Khamenei|role=Chief of state: Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989)|country=Iran|rows=56|asof=2026-08-21|image=}}

'''Ali Khamenei''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-21|summary=Most recent archived item: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - reported by naharnet.com:443|latest=naharnet.com:443}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of [[Iran]] from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the title Grand Ayatollah, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His 36-year tenure as supreme leader made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death. Born in Mashhad to the Khamenei family, he studied at a hawza there before settling in Qom in 1958, where he attended the classes of Ruhollah Khomeini. Khamenei became involved in opposition to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was arrested six times before being exiled for three years by the Pahlavi government. Khamenei was a mainstream figure in the Iranian Revolution, and upon its success, held many posts in the newly established Islamic republic. In the aftermath of the revolution, he was the target of an attempted assassination that paralysed his right arm. Khamenei served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 during the Iran–Iraq War, when he also developed close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). [1]

=== Early Life ===

Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamaneh was born on 19 April 1939 to Javad Khamenei, an alim and mujtahid born in Najaf, Iraq, and his second wife Khadijeh Mirdamadi (daughter of Hashem Mirdamadi) in Mashhad. He was the sixth of eight children, the third born to his mother. Two of his brothers are also clerics; his younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a newspaper editor and cleric. His elder sister Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died in 2015, aged 89. His father was an ethnic Azerbaijani Turk from Khamaneh. His mother was an ethnic Persian from Yazd. Ali Khamenei's ancestor was Sayyid Hossein Tafreshi, a descendant of the Aftasi Sayyids supposedly reaching to Sultan ul-Ulama Ahmad, known as Sultan Sayyid, a grandchild of the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali al-Sajjad. Some of his ancestors are from Tafresh in today's Markazi Province and migrated from their original home in Tafresh to Khamaneh near Tabriz. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-21 - naharnet.com:443: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise
* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-07-27 - outlet not recorded: The hunt for Khamenei: how CIA and Mossad are trying to trace Mojtaba
* [7] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [8] 2026-07-18 - vestikavkaza.ru: Mojtaba Khamenei: Donald Trump's signatures cannot be trusted
* [9] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [10] 2026-07-10 - outlet not recorded: Iran and U.S. ramp up tit-for-tat strikes as Khamenei laid to rest
* [11] 2026-07-05 - lalibre.be: In Tehran, faithful call for revenge in front of Khamenei's coffin
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [13] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [14] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Iran}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the title Grand Ayatollah, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His 36-year tenure as supreme leader made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death. Born in Mashhad to the Khamenei family, he studied at a hawza there before settling in Qom in 1958, where he attended the classes of Ruhollah Khomeini. Khamenei became involved in opposition to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was arrested six times before being exiled for three years by the Pahlavi government. Khamenei was a mainstream figure in the Iranian Revolution, and upon its success, held many posts in the newly established Islamic republic. In the aftermath of the revolution, he was the target of an attempted assassination that paralysed his right arm. Khamenei served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 during the Iran–Iraq War, when he also developed close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). - 1787711132.105922
* [2] Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamaneh was born on 19 April 1939 to Javad Khamenei, an alim and mujtahid born in Najaf, Iraq, and his second wife Khadijeh Mirdamadi (daughter of Hashem Mirdamadi) in Mashhad. He was the sixth of eight children, the third born to his mother. Two of his brothers are also clerics; his younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a newspaper editor and cleric. His elder sister Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died in 2015, aged 89. His father was an ethnic Azerbaijani Turk from Khamaneh. His mother was an ethnic Persian from Yazd. Ali Khamenei's ancestor was Sayyid Hossein Tafreshi, a descendant of the Aftasi Sayyids supposedly reaching to Sultan ul-Ulama Ahmad, known as Sultan Sayyid, a grandchild of the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali al-Sajjad. Some of his ancestors are from Tafresh in today's Markazi Province and migrated from their original home in Tafresh to Khamaneh near Tabriz. - 1787711132.105922
* [3] Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - https://www.naharnet.com:443/stories/en/321995-hezbollah-doesn-t-intend-to-cede-ali-al-taher-but-open-to-compromise
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [8] Mojtaba Khamenei: Donald Trump's signatures cannot be trusted - https://vestikavkaza.ru/news/modztaba-hamenei-podpisi-donalda-trampa-doverat-nelza.html
* [11] In Tehran, faithful call for revenge in front of Khamenei's coffin - https://www.lalibre.be/dernieres-depeches/2026/07/04/a-teheran-des-fideles-appellent-a-la-vengeance-devant-le-cercueil-de-khamenei-HWTBXND7YJCITNB4JAMZ3VARG4/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

2026-08-26T02:30:09Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Ukraine

{{Infobox person|name=Volodymyr Zelenskyy|role=Chief of state: President Volodymyr ZELENSKYY (since 20 May 2019)|country=Ukraine|rows=56|asof=2026-08-25|image=}}

'''Volodymyr Zelenskyy''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the 'Garden of Sophia' space - reported by Ukrinform, Ukrainian state|latest=Ukrinform, Ukrainian state}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of [[Ukraine]] since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war with [[Russia]]'s annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022. Born in Kryvyi Rih into a Russian-speaking Jewish family, Zelenskyy obtained a law degree at the city's Institute of Economics, but instead pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. Zelenskyy co-founded the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and television shows including the television series Servant of the People, in which he played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the television show was founded in March 2018 by Zelenskyy and other associates of Kvartal 95. During his campaign in the 2019 presidential election, Zelenskyy positioned himself as anti-establishment and anti-corruption, and had already been a frontrunner in opinion polls months before he declared his candidacy. He won the election with 73.23 percent of the vote in the second round, defeating incumbent president Petro Poroshenko in the biggest landslide in the history of Ukrainian presidential elections. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born into a Jewish family on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a retired engineer, while his father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy – a professor and computer scientist – is the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology. Oleksandr's father, Semyon Zelenskyy, served as an infantryman, reaching the rank of colonel in the Red Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during the Second World War. Semyon's father and three brothers were killed during the Holocaust. Zelenskyy said in March 2022 that, during a massacre, both of Semyon's parents were killed after German troops burned their home to the ground. Oleksandr's mother survived the Second World War after leaving Kryvyi Rih in an evacuation of Jews to Almaty, Kazakh SSR, and returned to [[Ukraine]] after the war. Before starting elementary school, Zelenskyy spent four years in Erdenet, Mongolia, where Oleksandr worked as a mining engineer from the mid-1970s to help build a copper mine, applying his abilities in computer science to mining. Zelenskyy grew up speaking Russian. [2]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [3] 2026-08-25 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the 'Garden of Sophia' space
* [4] 2026-08-25 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the space 'Garden of Sophia'
* [5] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Ukraine’s allies convene in Kyiv as Zelenskyy seeks air defence boost
* [6] 2026-08-23 - gCaptain: Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer
* [7] 2026-08-23 - outlet not recorded: Zelenskyy repeats Ukraine not behind Nord Stream attack
* [8] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: West Bank siege | Inside Iran | Zelenskyy's election challenge | Burnham’s dump crackdown - Channel 4 News | Substack
* [9] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [10] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [11] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Photos: Zelenskyy urges ‘protection of life’ amid deadly Russian attacks
* [12] 2026-07-28 - outlet not recorded: Blurred front lines: Trump meets Zelenskyy as Ukraine, Iran wars collide
* [13] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Ukraine fires 400 drones toward Moscow as Zelenskyy grapples with protests
* [14] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* ...and 44 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Ukraine}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war with Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022. Born in Kryvyi Rih into a Russian-speaking Jewish family, Zelenskyy obtained a law degree at the city's Institute of Economics, but instead pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. Zelenskyy co-founded the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and television shows including the television series Servant of the People, in which he played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the television show was founded in March 2018 by Zelenskyy and other associates of Kvartal 95. During his campaign in the 2019 presidential election, Zelenskyy positioned himself as anti-establishment and anti-corruption, and had already been a frontrunner in opinion polls months before he declared his candidacy. He won the election with 73.23 percent of the vote in the second round, defeating incumbent president Petro Poroshenko in the biggest landslide in the history of Ukrainian presidential elections. - 1787711095.0428
* [2] Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born into a Jewish family on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a retired engineer, while his father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy – a professor and computer scientist – is the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology. Oleksandr's father, Semyon Zelenskyy, served as an infantryman, reaching the rank of colonel in the Red Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during the Second World War. Semyon's father and three brothers were killed during the Holocaust. Zelenskyy said in March 2022 that, during a massacre, both of Semyon's parents were killed after German troops burned their home to the ground. Oleksandr's mother survived the Second World War after leaving Kryvyi Rih in an evacuation of Jews to Almaty, Kazakh SSR, and returned to Ukraine after the war. Before starting elementary school, Zelenskyy spent four years in Erdenet, Mongolia, where Oleksandr worked as a mining engineer from the mid-1970s to help build a copper mine, applying his abilities in computer science to mining. Zelenskyy grew up speaking Russian. - 1787711095.0428
* [3] Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the 'Garden of Sophia' space - https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/4157700-volodimir-ta-olena-zelenski-vidvidali-prostir-sad-sofijnosti.html
* [4] Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky visited the space 'Garden of Sophia' - https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/4157700-volodimir-ta-olena-zelenski-vidvidali-prostir-sad-sofijnosti.html
* [5] Ukraine’s allies convene in Kyiv as Zelenskyy seeks air defence boost - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/24/ukraines-allies-convene-in-kyiv-as-zelenskyy-seeks-air-defence-boost?traffic_source=rss
* [6] Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer - https://gcaptain.com/zelenskyy-says-putin-rejected-black-sea-shipping-truce-offer/
* [9] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:People]]

Vladimir Putin

2026-08-26T02:30:09Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from Russia

{{Infobox person|name=Vladimir Putin|role=Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012)|country=Russia|rows=64|asof=2026-08-23|image=}}

'''Vladimir Putin''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-23|summary=Most recent archived item: Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says - reported by Moscow Times|latest=Moscow Times}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-23}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of [[Russia]] since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia between 2008 and 2012. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996, Putin moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August 1999. Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became acting president and, less than three months later in March 2000, was elected to his first term as president. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, known as Saint Petersburg since 1991, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He is the youngest of three children born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Putin's birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. Putin's mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. During the early stage of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in 1942. Putin's maternal grandmother was killed by the German occupiers of the Tver region in 1941, and his maternal uncles disappeared on the Eastern Front during World War II. [2]

=== Career ===

Putin's political rise began in the Saint Petersburg administration (1990–1996), where in May 1990, he was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to Mayor Anatoly Sobchak. Shortly thereafter, in June 1991, he became the head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, overseeing the promotion of international ties, foreign investment, and the registration of business ventures. Though his tenure was marred by investigations from the city legislative council concerning discrepancies in asset valuation and the export of metals, Putin retained his position until 1996. During the mid-1990s, he expanded his responsibilities in Saint Petersburg, serving as first deputy head of the city administration and leading the local branch of the pro-government political party Our Home Is [[Russia]], as well as participating in advisory roles with regional newspapers. Transitioning to the national scene in 1996, Putin was called to Moscow following the electoral defeat of Sobchak, where he assumed the role of Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing the transfer of former Soviet assets to the Russian Federation. His career in Moscow advanced rapidly with his appointment in 1997 as deputy chief of the Presidential Staff and later as chief of the Main Control Directorate of the same department. A pivotal moment came in 1998 when President Boris Yeltsin appointed him director of the FSB, Russia's primary intelligence and security agency. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-23 - Moscow Times: Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says
* [5] 2026-08-23 - gCaptain: Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer
* [6] 2026-08-23 - Moscow Times: Putin Says Ukraine Opened ‘Pandora's Box’ With Strikes on Economic Targets
* [7] 2026-08-12 - outlet not recorded: Putin warns of tit-for-tat seizures of European vessels
* [8] 2026-07-23 - outlet not recorded: The West's plan to pressure Putin has a glaring flaw
* [9] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [10] 2026-07-08 - outlet not recorded: On St. John of Damascus’ Magnum Opus - St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
* [11] 2026-07-05 - outlet not recorded: With Putin visibly weakened, now is the time to back Ukraine
* [12] 2026-07-02 - outlet not recorded: Facing New Pressure From Ukraine, Putin Signals Intent to Dig In
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-30 - outlet not recorded: Ukraine’s blockade of Crimea puts Putin’s greatest victory under threat
* [15] 2026-06-29 - outlet not recorded: Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=Russia}}

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia between 2008 and 2012. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996, Putin moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August 1999. Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became acting president and, less than three months later in March 2000, was elected to his first term as president. - 1787711053.031003
* [2] Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, known as Saint Petersburg since 1991, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He is the youngest of three children born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Putin's birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. Putin's mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. During the early stage of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in 1942. Putin's maternal grandmother was killed by the German occupiers of the Tver region in 1941, and his maternal uncles disappeared on the Eastern Front during World War II. - 1787711053.031003
* [3] Putin's political rise began in the Saint Petersburg administration (1990–1996), where in May 1990, he was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to Mayor Anatoly Sobchak. Shortly thereafter, in June 1991, he became the head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, overseeing the promotion of international ties, foreign investment, and the registration of business ventures. Though his tenure was marred by investigations from the city legislative council concerning discrepancies in asset valuation and the export of metals, Putin retained his position until 1996. During the mid-1990s, he expanded his responsibilities in Saint Petersburg, serving as first deputy head of the city administration and leading the local branch of the pro-government political party Our Home Is Russia, as well as participating in advisory roles with regional newspapers. Transitioning to the national scene in 1996, Putin was called to Moscow following the electoral defeat of Sobchak, where he assumed the role of Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing the transfer of former Soviet assets to the Russian Federation. His career in Moscow advanced rapidly with his appointment in 1997 as deputy chief of the Presidential Staff and later as chief of the Main Control Directorate of the same department. A pivotal moment came in 1998 when President Boris Yeltsin appointed him director of the FSB, Russia's primary intelligence and security agency. - 1787711053.031003
* [4] Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/23/putin-wants-to-draft-300k-new-troops-zelensky-says-a93562
* [5] Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer - https://gcaptain.com/zelenskyy-says-putin-rejected-black-sea-shipping-truce-offer/
* [6] Putin Says Ukraine Opened ‘Pandora's Box’ With Strikes on Economic Targets - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/23/putin-says-ukraine-opened-pandoras-box-with-strikes-on-economic-targets-a93560

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China

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'''China''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action - reported by The Diplomat|latest=The Diplomat}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - The Diplomat: China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam
* [3] 2026-08-22 - The War Zone: China’s Next Aircraft Carrier Is Taking Shape
* [4] 2026-08-21 - The War Zone: China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization
* [5] 2026-08-21 - The Diplomat: Ahead of Xi Visit, US Designates American Held in China as ‘Wrongfully Detained’
* [6] 2026-08-21 - The Diplomat: After 9 Years, China Is Reopening Its Borders To Recycled Plastic
* [7] 2026-08-20 - The War Zone: Our Best Look At China’s New Y-15 Turboprop Airlifter
* [8] 2026-08-20 - The Diplomat: China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan
* [9] 2026-08-01 - outlet not recorded: China helps Iran chip away at US air superiority despite Xi’s no-arms pledge
* [10] 2026-07-22 - outlet not recorded: There is no ‘Middle East.’ There’s a Levant America loves and a Gulf China needs
* [11] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* [12] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

China's historical civilization dates to at least the 13th century B.C., first under the Shang (to 1046 B.C.) and then the Zhou (1046-221 B.C.) dynasties. [13]

Evidence of early humans such as Homo erectus in China dates to the Paleolithic, around 1.7 million years ago, with unconfirmed sites as old as 2 million years ago. [14]

The imperial era of China began in 221 B.C. under the Qin Dynasty and lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. [15]

Modern Homo sapiens are attested from around 50,000 years ago. [16]

During this period, China alternated between periods of unity and disunity under a succession of imperial dynasties. [17]

Following the end of the Last Glacial Period, in about 8,000 BCE, pottery-making Neolithic cultures emerged. By the 6000s BCE, sedentary agricultural societies had spread across the lower Yellow River basin. These societies became increasingly complex, urbanized, and stratified, but many experienced a population collapse in the late 2000s BCE for unclear reasons. After 2000 BCE, a Bronze Age culture emerged in the Central Plain, dubbed the Erlitou culture after its main site. Erlitou has been controversially identified with the Xia, the traditionally-accepted first dynasty, but no written records exist to confirm this. The Shang dynasty purportedly succeeded the Xia around 1600 BCE, with its early stages tentatively identified with an expansionist state known archaeologically as the Erligang culture. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President [[Xi Jinping|XI Jinping]] (since 14 March 2013) Head of government: Premier LI Qiang (since 11 March 2023) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam Area: 9,596,960 sq km Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east Natural resources: coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, antimony, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest), arable land [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north [21]

=== Culture ===

Beginning in the Qin and Han dynasties and continuing over the following millennia, an area of Chinese cultural influence grew to encompass much of East Asia. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam adopted various political, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic concepts from China, boosted by their adoption of Chinese characters and participation within the tributary system. China has 60 World Heritage Sites, including the Great Wall and Grand Canal, the second-most of any country (behind Italy). [22]

Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.) [23]

Chinese culture has historically emphasized family connections, with filial piety and the veneration of ancestors seen as vital duties under Confucian ethics. [24]

Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet) [25]

Prior to the 20th century, family relations were highly patriarchal, and arranged marriages were commonplace. [26]

Religions: folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.1% (2021 est.) [27]

The CCP pushed for women's equality after coming to power, establishing the All-China Women's Federation to manage women's issues. However, many patriarchal gender norms remain prevalent, and women face lower employment rates and occupational gender segregation. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1912, China traditionally used a 12-month lunisolar calendar. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: communist party-led state Capital: Beijing Legal system: civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes [29]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 1,407,181,209 (2025 est.) [30]

The 2020 Chinese census recorded the population as approximately 1,411,778,724. About 17.95% were 14 years old or younger, 63.35% were between 15 and 59, and 18.7% were over 60. [31]

Median age: 40.8 years (2025 est.) [32]

Between 2010 and 2020, the average population growth rate was 0.53%. [33]

Urbanization: 64.6% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 29.211 million Shanghai, 21.766 million BEIJING (capital), 17.341 million Chongqing, 14.284 million Guangzhou, 14.239 million Tianjin, 13.073 million Shenzhen (2023) [34]

Since 2022, deaths have outpaced births. China has among the lowest total fertility rates (births per woman) in the world, around 1.0 as of 2025. [35]

Life expectancy: 78.7 years (2024 est.) [36]

China has a rapidly aging population: the proportion of Chinese over 65 is predicted to reach 26% by 2050, which would create a large economic and social burden from increased need for caretakers and medical assistance. [37]

Literacy: 96.7% (2020 est.) [38]

The National Bureau of Statistics estimated that the population fell 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, the first decline since 1961. In 2025, China recorded 7.92 million births, the lowest recorded birthrate since at least 1949. [39]

=== Military ===

Branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces or People's Liberation Army Army (PLAA), Navy (PLAN, includes Marine Corps (PLANMC)), Air Force (PLAAF), Rocket Force (PLARF), Aerospace Force (ASF), Cyberspace Force (CSF), Information Support Force (ISF), Joint Logistics Support Force (JLSF); People's Armed Police (PAP, includes Coast Guard, Border Defense Force, Internal Security Forces); PLA Reserve Force (2025) Expenditures: 1.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 2 million active-duty PLA (950,000-1 million Ground; 250,000 Navy, including about 50,000 Marines; 350-400,000 Air Force; 120,000 Rocket Forces; 150-175,000 other forces) (2025) Equipment: the PLA is mostly equipped with domestically produced armaments with smaller amounts of imported weaponry, largely from [[Russia]]; China has one of the world's largest defense-industrial sectors and is capable of producing advanced weapons systems across all military domains (2025) [40]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:China|Timeline: China]] · [[Ukraine]] · [[Taiwan]]}}

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== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action - https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/chinas-three-anti-legal-framework-in-action/
* [2] Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.228541/
* [3] China’s Next Aircraft Carrier Is Taking Shape - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.18543/
* [4] China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619058/
* [5] Ahead of Xi Visit, US Designates American Held in China as ‘Wrongfully Detained’ - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619991/
* [6] After 9 Years, China Is Reopening Its Borders To Recycled Plastic - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502553/
* [7] Our Best Look At China’s New Y-15 Turboprop Airlifter - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.185217/
* [8] China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691299.924407/
* [13] Background: China's historical civilization dates to at least the 13th century B.C., first under the Shang (to 1046 B.C.) and then the Zhou (1046-221 B.C.) dynasties. - 1787695210.317043
* [14] Evidence of early humans such as Homo erectus in China dates to the Paleolithic, around 1.7 million years ago, with unconfirmed sites as old as 2 million years ago. - 1787707299.963839
* [15] Background: The imperial era of China began in 221 B.C. under the Qin Dynasty and lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. - 1787695210.317043
* [16] Modern Homo sapiens are attested from around 50,000 years ago. - 1787707299.963839
* [17] Background: During this period, China alternated between periods of unity and disunity under a succession of imperial dynasties. - 1787695210.317043
* [18] Following the end of the Last Glacial Period, in about 8,000 BCE, pottery-making Neolithic cultures emerged. By the 6000s BCE, sedentary agricultural societies had spread across the lower Yellow River basin. These societies became increasingly complex, urbanized, and stratified, but many experienced a population collapse in the late 2000s BCE for unclear reasons. After 2000 BCE, a Bronze Age culture emerged in the Central Plain, dubbed the Erlitou culture after its main site. Erlitou has been controversially identified with the Xia, the traditionally-accepted first dynasty, but no written records exist to confirm this. The Shang dynasty purportedly succeeded the Xia around 1600 BCE, with its early stages tentatively identified with an expansionist state known archaeologically as the Erligang culture. - 1787707299.963839
* [19] Chief of state: President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013) Head of government: Premier LI Qiang (since 11 March 2023) - 1787695210.317043
* [20] Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam Area: 9,596,960 sq km Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east Natural resources: coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, antimony, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest), arable land - 1787695210.317043
* [21] Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north - 1787695210.317043
* [22] Beginning in the Qin and Han dynasties and continuing over the following millennia, an area of Chinese cultural influence grew to encompass much of East Asia. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam adopted various political, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic concepts from China, boosted by their adoption of Chinese characters and participation within the tributary system. China has 60 World Heritage Sites, including the Great Wall and Grand Canal, the second-most of any country (behind Italy). - 1787707299.963839
* [23] Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [24] Chinese culture has historically emphasized family connections, with filial piety and the veneration of ancestors seen as vital duties under Confucian ethics. - 1787707299.963839
* [25] Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet) - 1787695210.317043
* [26] Prior to the 20th century, family relations were highly patriarchal, and arranged marriages were commonplace. - 1787707299.963839
* [27] Religions: folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.1% (2021 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [28] The CCP pushed for women's equality after coming to power, establishing the All-China Women's Federation to manage women's issues. However, many patriarchal gender norms remain prevalent, and women face lower employment rates and occupational gender segregation. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1912, China traditionally used a 12-month lunisolar calendar. - 1787707299.963839
* [29] Government type: communist party-led state Capital: Beijing Legal system: civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes - 1787695210.317043
* [30] Population: 1,407,181,209 (2025 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [31] The 2020 Chinese census recorded the population as approximately 1,411,778,724. About 17.95% were 14 years old or younger, 63.35% were between 15 and 59, and 18.7% were over 60. - 1787707299.963839
* [32] Median age: 40.8 years (2025 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [33] Between 2010 and 2020, the average population growth rate was 0.53%. - 1787707299.963839
* [34] Urbanization: 64.6% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 29.211 million Shanghai, 21.766 million BEIJING (capital), 17.341 million Chongqing, 14.284 million Guangzhou, 14.239 million Tianjin, 13.073 million Shenzhen (2023) - 1787695210.317043
* [35] Since 2022, deaths have outpaced births. China has among the lowest total fertility rates (births per woman) in the world, around 1.0 as of 2025. - 1787707299.963839
* [36] Life expectancy: 78.7 years (2024 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [37] China has a rapidly aging population: the proportion of Chinese over 65 is predicted to reach 26% by 2050, which would create a large economic and social burden from increased need for caretakers and medical assistance. - 1787707299.963839
* [38] Literacy: 96.7% (2020 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [39] The National Bureau of Statistics estimated that the population fell 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, the first decline since 1961. In 2025, China recorded 7.92 million births, the lowest recorded birthrate since at least 1949. - 1787707299.963839
* [40] Branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces or People's Liberation Army Army (PLAA), Navy (PLAN, includes Marine Corps (PLANMC)), Air Force (PLAAF), Rocket Force (PLARF), Aerospace Force (ASF), Cyberspace Force (CSF), Information Support Force (ISF), Joint Logistics Support Force (JLSF); People's Armed Police (PAP, includes Coast Guard, Border Defense Force, Internal Security Forces); PLA Reserve Force (2025) Expenditures: 1.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 2 million active-duty PLA (950,000-1 million Ground; 250,000 Navy, including about 50,000 Marines; 350-400,000 Air Force; 120,000 Rocket Forces; 150-175,000 other forces) (2025) Equipment: the PLA is mostly equipped with domestically produced armaments with smaller amounts of imported weaponry, largely from Russia; China has one of the world's largest defense-industrial sectors and is capable of producing advanced weapons systems across all military domains (2025) - 1787695210.317043

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Xi Jinping

2026-08-26T02:22:27Z

Sheldon: Sheldon: 12 items shown, biography from China

{{Infobox person|name=Xi Jinping|role=Chief of state: President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013)|country=China|rows=64|asof=2026-08-20|image=}}

'''Xi Jinping''' as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-20|summary=Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department|latest=US State Department}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20}}

== Biography ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== Biography ===

Xi Jinping (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of [[China]]. He has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and as the president of China and chairman of the State Central Military Commission since 2013. The elder son of Xi Zhongxun's second marriage to Qi Xin, Xi was born in Beijing. He is considered a princeling but kept a low-key image in his early career. As a teenager, his father was purged, and he was sent down to the rural village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi, during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong there, joined the CCP after several failed attempts, and served as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the party ranks. He served as governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002 before serving as governor and party secretary of Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. [1]

=== Early Life ===

Xi Jinping was born on 15 June 1953 in Beijing as the third child of Xi Zhongxun and his second wife Qi Xin. A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revolutionary, Xi's father held a series of posts after the founding of the People's Republic of [[China]] in 1949, including head of the Party Publicity Department, vice premier, and vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Xi has two older sisters, Qi Qiaoqiao, born in 1949, and Qi An'an (齐安安), born in 1952. Xi's father was from Fuping County, Shaanxi. Xi went to Beijing Bayi School, where students were primarily the children of high-ranking military officials. In 1963, when Xi was ten years old, his father was purged from the CCP and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. Following the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Xi was persecuted due to his father's status. Student militants ransacked the Xi family home. [2]

=== Leadership ===

Political observers have called Xi the most powerful Chinese leader since Chairman Mao Zedong, especially since the ending of presidential two-term limits in 2018. Xi has departed from the CCP's previous collective leadership practices. Observers have said that Xi has seriously diluted the influence of the once-dominant Tuanpai, also called the Youth League Faction, which were CCP officials who rose through the Communist Youth League (CYLC). Xi has had a cult of personality constructed around himself since entering office with books, cartoons, pop songs and dance routines honouring his rule. Xi's cult of personality has been especially pronounced in Xinjiang. In 2016, the sixth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee officially announced Xi as the leadership core, making him the fourth leader to have been given this designation after Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin; Hu Jintao was never given this designation. Xi was re-elected as general secretary and CMC chairman by the 19th Central Committee after the 19th Party National Congress, held between 18 and 24 October 2017; the 19th Politburo was noted for containing no potential successor. In March 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress passed constitutional amendments including removal of term limits for the president and vice president, the creation of a National Supervisory Commission, as well as codifying the leading role of the CCP. [3]

== Reporting ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

=== Other archived reporting ===

* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [7] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [8] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
* [9] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [14] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
* [15] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
* ...and 52 more not listed here.

{{See also|pages=China}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Xi Jinping (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of China. He has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and as the president of China and chairman of the State Central Military Commission since 2013. The elder son of Xi Zhongxun's second marriage to Qi Xin, Xi was born in Beijing. He is considered a princeling but kept a low-key image in his early career. As a teenager, his father was purged, and he was sent down to the rural village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi, during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong there, joined the CCP after several failed attempts, and served as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the party ranks. He served as governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002 before serving as governor and party secretary of Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. - 1787710612.252384
* [2] Xi Jinping was born on 15 June 1953 in Beijing as the third child of Xi Zhongxun and his second wife Qi Xin. A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revolutionary, Xi's father held a series of posts after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, including head of the Party Publicity Department, vice premier, and vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Xi has two older sisters, Qi Qiaoqiao, born in 1949, and Qi An'an (齐安安), born in 1952. Xi's father was from Fuping County, Shaanxi. Xi went to Beijing Bayi School, where students were primarily the children of high-ranking military officials. In 1963, when Xi was ten years old, his father was purged from the CCP and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. Following the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Xi was persecuted due to his father's status. Student militants ransacked the Xi family home. - 1787710612.252384
* [3] Political observers have called Xi the most powerful Chinese leader since Chairman Mao Zedong, especially since the ending of presidential two-term limits in 2018. Xi has departed from the CCP's previous collective leadership practices. Observers have said that Xi has seriously diluted the influence of the once-dominant Tuanpai, also called the Youth League Faction, which were CCP officials who rose through the Communist Youth League (CYLC). Xi has had a cult of personality constructed around himself since entering office with books, cartoons, pop songs and dance routines honouring his rule. Xi's cult of personality has been especially pronounced in Xinjiang. In 2016, the sixth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee officially announced Xi as the leadership core, making him the fourth leader to have been given this designation after Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin; Hu Jintao was never given this designation. Xi was re-elected as general secretary and CMC chairman by the 19th Central Committee after the 19th Party National Congress, held between 18 and 24 October 2017; the 19th Politburo was noted for containing no potential successor. In March 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress passed constitutional amendments including removal of term limits for the president and vice president, the creation of a National Supervisory Commission, as well as codifying the leading role of the CCP. - 1787710612.252384
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:People]]

Lebanon

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{{Infobox place|name=Lebanon|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=89|asof=2026-08-17|image=[[File:lebanon-flag.png|thumb|220px|Lebanon flag. (Henri Pharaon, Public domain)]][[File:lebanon-map.png|thumb|220px|Lebanon locator map. (Eli+ 00:28, 15 January 2012 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Lebanon''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-17|summary=Most recent archived item: Lebanon Flare-Up and Gaza Strikes Dent Mideast Peace Prospects - reported by outlet not recorded|latest=outlet not recorded}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-17}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-17 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon Flare-Up and Gaza Strikes Dent Mideast Peace Prospects
* [2] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Trump's Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality
* [3] 2026-07-12 - ynet.co.il: Lebanon's dilemma
* [4] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [5] 2026-06-22 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon’s Failure to Disassociate
* [6] 2026-06-19 - outlet not recorded: Deadly Violence Rocks Lebanon in Threat to U.S.-Iran Deal
* [7] 2026-06-12 - outlet not recorded: The U.S. Should Not Encourage Syria to Enter Lebanon
* [8] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
* [9] 2026-06-06 - ynet.co.il: Gaza is a step away from catastrophe
* [10] 2026-06-05 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon’s President Accuses Iran of Using Lebanon as Bargaining Chip, Urges Diplomacy Over War
* [11] 2026-05-31 - outlet not recorded: Lebanon's prime minister: Israel has a 'scorched-earth policy' in Lebanon
* [12] 2026-05-31 - outlet not recorded: Israel locates Hezbollah's weapons in South Lebanon
* ...and 77 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

As a result of its location at the crossroads of three continents, the area that is modern-day Lebanon is rich in cultural and religious diversity. [13]

The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary at around 12000 BC. [14]

This region was subject to various foreign conquerors for much of its history, including the Romans, Arabs, and Ottomans. [15]

Evidence of early settlement in Lebanon was found in Byblos, considered among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. [16]

Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. [17]

The evidence dates back to earlier than 5000 BC. Archaeologists discovered remnants of prehistoric huts with crushed limestone floors, primitive weapons, and burial jars left by the Neolithic and Chalcolithic fishing communities who lived on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea over 7,000 years ago. Lebanon was part of northern Canaan, and consequently became the homeland of Canaanite descendants, the Phoenicians, a seafaring people based in the coastal strip of the northern Levant who spread across the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC. The most prominent Phoenician cities were Byblos, Sidon and Tyre. According to the Bible, King Hiram of Tyre collaborated closely with Solomon, supplying cedar logs for Solomon's Temple and sending skilled workers. The Phoenicians are credited with the invention of the oldest verified alphabet, which subsequently inspired the Greek alphabet and the Latin one thereafter. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President Joseph AOUN (since 9 January 2025) Head of government: Prime Minister Nawaf SALAM (since 8 February 2025) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria Area: 10,400 sq km Terrain: narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains Natural resources: limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; the Lebanon Mountains experience heavy winter snows [21]

=== Culture ===

The culture of Lebanon reflects the legacy of various civilizations spanning thousands of years. Originally home to the Canaanite-Phoenicians, and then conquered and occupied by the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the Ottoman Turks and most recently the French, Lebanese culture has over the millennia evolved by borrowing from all of these groups. [22]

Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% [23]

Lebanon's diverse population, composed of different ethnic and religious groups, has further contributed to the country's festivals, musical styles and literature as well as cuisine. Despite the ethnic, linguistic, religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they "share an almost common culture". [24]

Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian [25]

Lebanese Arabic is universally spoken while food, music, and literature are deep-rooted "in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms". [26]

Religions: Muslim 67.8% (31.9% Sunni, 31.2% Shia, smaller percentages of Alawites and Ismailis), Christian 32.4% (Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group), Druze 4.5%, very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Buddhists, and Hindus (2020 est.) [27]

In visual arts, Moustafa Farroukh was among Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. Formally trained in Rome and Paris, he exhibited in venues from Paris to New York to Beirut over his career. Many more contemporary artists are active, such as Walid Raad, a contemporary media artist residing in New York. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: parliamentary democratic republic Capital: Beirut Legal system: mixed system of civil law based on the French civil code, Ottoman legal tradition, and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities [29]

=== Demographics ===

Lebanon had an estimated population of 5,592,631 in 2021, with the number of Lebanese nationals estimated at 4,680,212 in July; however, no official census has been conducted since 1932 due to the sensitive confessional political balance between Lebanon's various religious groups. [30]

Population: 5,364,482 (2024 est.) [31]

Identifying all Lebanese as ethnically Arab is a widely employed example of panethnicity, as the Lebanese "are descended from many different peoples who are either indigenous, or have occupied, invaded, or settled this corner of the world", making Lebanon, "a mosaic of closely interrelated cultures". [32]

Median age: 29.4 years (2025 est.) [33]

The fertility rate fell from 5.00 in 1971 to 1.75 in 2004. [34]

Urbanization: 89.4% of total population (2023) [35]

Fertility rates vary considerably among the different religious groups: in 2004, it was 2.10 for Shiites, 1.76 for Sunnis and 1.61 for Maronites. [36]

Major urban areas: 2.421 million BEIRUT (capital) (2023) [37]

Lebanese people have a long history of emigration stretching back to the 19th century; including partial ancestry, more Lebanese live outside the country than in Lebanon itself. [38]

Life expectancy: 79.2 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 92% (2019 est.) [39]

The country has experienced a series of migration waves since independence: over 1.8 million people emigrated from the country between 1975 and 2011. Consequently, millions of people of Lebanese descent are spread throughout the world, especially in Latin America; Brazil and Argentina have the largest Lebanese communities, with the former having the largest population in the world, at 5–7 million. North America likewise hosts a large diaspora, particularly in Canada (approximately 250,000–700,000) and the United States (around 2 million). [40]

=== Military ===

Branches: Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army Command (includes Presidential Guard Brigade, Land Border Regiments), Naval Forces, Air Forces; Ministry of Interior: General Directorate of Internal Security Forces (law enforcement; includes Mobile Gendarmerie), General Directorate for Public Security (border control, some domestic security duties) (2025) Personnel: approximately 70,000 active Lebanese Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the LAF's inventory is comprised of mostly older or secondhand equipment from an array of countries, such as France, Germany, [[Russia]], and especially the US (2025) [41]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Lebanon|Timeline: Lebanon]] · [[Gaza]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 10 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +5 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — +1 source(s)
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [3] Lebanon's dilemma - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691794.592425/
* [9] Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040124/
* [13] Background: As a result of its location at the crossroads of three continents, the area that is modern-day Lebanon is rich in cultural and religious diversity. - 1787695230.96575
* [14] The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary at around 12000 BC. - 1787707364.121196
* [15] Background: This region was subject to various foreign conquerors for much of its history, including the Romans, Arabs, and Ottomans. - 1787695230.96575
* [16] Evidence of early settlement in Lebanon was found in Byblos, considered among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. - 1787707364.121196
* [17] Background: Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. - 1787695230.96575
* [18] The evidence dates back to earlier than 5000 BC. Archaeologists discovered remnants of prehistoric huts with crushed limestone floors, primitive weapons, and burial jars left by the Neolithic and Chalcolithic fishing communities who lived on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea over 7,000 years ago. Lebanon was part of northern Canaan, and consequently became the homeland of Canaanite descendants, the Phoenicians, a seafaring people based in the coastal strip of the northern Levant who spread across the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC. The most prominent Phoenician cities were Byblos, Sidon and Tyre. According to the Bible, King Hiram of Tyre collaborated closely with Solomon, supplying cedar logs for Solomon's Temple and sending skilled workers. The Phoenicians are credited with the invention of the oldest verified alphabet, which subsequently inspired the Greek alphabet and the Latin one thereafter. - 1787707364.121196
* [19] Chief of state: President Joseph AOUN (since 9 January 2025) Head of government: Prime Minister Nawaf SALAM (since 8 February 2025) - 1787695230.96575
* [20] Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria Area: 10,400 sq km Terrain: narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains Natural resources: limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land - 1787695230.96575
* [21] Climate: Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; the Lebanon Mountains experience heavy winter snows - 1787695230.96575
* [22] The culture of Lebanon reflects the legacy of various civilizations spanning thousands of years. Originally home to the Canaanite-Phoenicians, and then conquered and occupied by the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the Ottoman Turks and most recently the French, Lebanese culture has over the millennia evolved by borrowing from all of these groups. - 1787707364.121196
* [23] Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% - 1787695230.96575
* [24] Lebanon's diverse population, composed of different ethnic and religious groups, has further contributed to the country's festivals, musical styles and literature as well as cuisine. Despite the ethnic, linguistic, religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they "share an almost common culture". - 1787707364.121196
* [25] Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian - 1787695230.96575
* [26] Lebanese Arabic is universally spoken while food, music, and literature are deep-rooted "in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms". - 1787707364.121196
* [27] Religions: Muslim 67.8% (31.9% Sunni, 31.2% Shia, smaller percentages of Alawites and Ismailis), Christian 32.4% (Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group), Druze 4.5%, very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Buddhists, and Hindus (2020 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [28] In visual arts, Moustafa Farroukh was among Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. Formally trained in Rome and Paris, he exhibited in venues from Paris to New York to Beirut over his career. Many more contemporary artists are active, such as Walid Raad, a contemporary media artist residing in New York. - 1787707364.121196
* [29] Government type: parliamentary democratic republic Capital: Beirut Legal system: mixed system of civil law based on the French civil code, Ottoman legal tradition, and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities - 1787695230.96575
* [30] Lebanon had an estimated population of 5,592,631 in 2021, with the number of Lebanese nationals estimated at 4,680,212 in July; however, no official census has been conducted since 1932 due to the sensitive confessional political balance between Lebanon's various religious groups. - 1787707364.121196
* [31] Population: 5,364,482 (2024 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [32] Identifying all Lebanese as ethnically Arab is a widely employed example of panethnicity, as the Lebanese "are descended from many different peoples who are either indigenous, or have occupied, invaded, or settled this corner of the world", making Lebanon, "a mosaic of closely interrelated cultures". - 1787707364.121196
* [33] Median age: 29.4 years (2025 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [34] The fertility rate fell from 5.00 in 1971 to 1.75 in 2004. - 1787707364.121196
* [35] Urbanization: 89.4% of total population (2023) - 1787695230.96575
* [36] Fertility rates vary considerably among the different religious groups: in 2004, it was 2.10 for Shiites, 1.76 for Sunnis and 1.61 for Maronites. - 1787707364.121196
* [37] Major urban areas: 2.421 million BEIRUT (capital) (2023) - 1787695230.96575
* [38] Lebanese people have a long history of emigration stretching back to the 19th century; including partial ancestry, more Lebanese live outside the country than in Lebanon itself. - 1787707364.121196
* [39] Life expectancy: 79.2 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 92% (2019 est.) - 1787695230.96575
* [40] The country has experienced a series of migration waves since independence: over 1.8 million people emigrated from the country between 1975 and 2011. Consequently, millions of people of Lebanese descent are spread throughout the world, especially in Latin America; Brazil and Argentina have the largest Lebanese communities, with the former having the largest population in the world, at 5–7 million. North America likewise hosts a large diaspora, particularly in Canada (approximately 250,000–700,000) and the United States (around 2 million). - 1787707364.121196
* [41] Branches: Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army Command (includes Presidential Guard Brigade, Land Border Regiments), Naval Forces, Air Forces; Ministry of Interior: General Directorate of Internal Security Forces (law enforcement; includes Mobile Gendarmerie), General Directorate for Public Security (border control, some domestic security duties) (2025) Personnel: approximately 70,000 active Lebanese Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the LAF's inventory is comprised of mostly older or secondhand equipment from an array of countries, such as France, Germany, Russia, and especially the US (2025) - 1787695230.96575

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background sources: CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:Conflicts]]

Turkey

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{{Infobox place|name=Turkey|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=90|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:turkey-flag.png|thumb|220px|Turkey flag. (David Benbennick (original author), Public domain)]][[File:turkey-map.png|thumb|220px|Turkey locator map. (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Turkey''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: Turkey Braces For Potential Gas Squeeze as U.S. Targets Iran Trade - reported by gCaptain|latest=gCaptain}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - gCaptain: Turkey Braces For Potential Gas Squeeze as U.S. Targets Iran Trade
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Forest fire in northwestern Turkey
* [3] 2026-08-23 - outlet not recorded: Israel's secret channel to quell the tensions with Turkey
* [4] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Benjamin Netanyahu looks to Russia playbook to handle Turkey amid Syria tensions
* [5] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Turkey issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu over interception of Gaza activist flotilla
* [6] 2026-08-21 - France 24: Turkey seeks Interpol arrest warrant for Netanyahu over Gaza flotilla detention
* [7] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Could Israel, Turkey clash in Syria as tensions over military presence grow?
* [8] 2026-08-20 - Long War Journal: Israel strikes military airbase in Syria while warning Turkey
* [9] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Israel's Defense Minister Warns Turkey Against 'Dangerous Adventures' in Syria
* [10] 2026-08-19 - outlet not recorded: As election looms, Netanyahu puts Turkey in Israel's crosshairs
* [11] 2026-08-19 - outlet not recorded: Turkey discusses oil and gas exploration, inks phosphates deal with Syria
* [12] 2026-07-23 - outlet not recorded: Israel and Turkey’s Emerging Cold War in the Mediterranean
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire by reformer and national hero Mustafa KEMAL, known as Ataturk or "Father of the Turks." One-party rule ended in 1950, and periods of instability and military coups have since fractured the multiparty democracy, in 1960, 1971, 1980, 1997, and 2016. [13]

Present-day Turkey has been inhabited by modern humans since the late Paleolithic period and contains some of the world's oldest Neolithic sites. [14]

Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and NATO in 1952. [15]

Göbekli Tepe is close to 12,000 years old. [16]

In 1963, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community; it began accession talks with the EU in 2005. [17]

Parts of Anatolia include the Fertile Crescent, an origin of agriculture. Other important Anatolian Neolithic sites include Çatalhöyük and Alaca Höyük. Neolithic Anatolian farmers differed genetically from farmers in [[Iran]] and Jordan Valley. These early Anatolian farmers also migrated into Europe, starting around 9,000 years ago. Troy's earliest layers go back to around 4500 BC. Anatolia's historical records start with clay tablets from approximately around 2000 BC that were found in modern-day Kültepe. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN (since 28 August 2014) Head of government: President Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN (since 9 July 2018) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria Area: 783,562 sq km Terrain: high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges Natural resources: coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior [21]

=== Culture ===

In the 19th century, Turkish identity was debated in the Ottoman Empire, with three main views: Turkism, Islamism and Westernism. In addition to Europe or Islam, Turkish culture was also influenced by Anatolia's native cultures. After the establishment of the republic, Kemalism emphasized Turkish culture, attempted to make "Islam a matter of personal conviction", and pursued modernization. [22]

Ethnic groups: Turkish 70-75%, Kurdish 19%, other minorities 6-11% (2016 est.) [23]

Currently, Turkey has various local cultures. [24]

Languages: Turkish (official), Kurdish, other minority languages Religions: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews) [25]

Things such as music, folk dance, or kebap variety may be used to identify a local area. Turkey also has a national culture, such as national sports leagues, music bands, film stars, and trends in fashion. Turkey is home to 21 UNESCO World Heritage sites and 31 UNESCO intangible cultural heritage inscriptions. Turkey is home to numerous Neolithic settlements, such as Çatalhöyük. [26]

=== Government ===

Government type: presidential republic Capital: Ankara Legal system: civil law system based on various European systems, notably the Swiss civil code [27]

=== Demographics ===

According to the Address-Based Population Recording System, the country's population was 85,372,377 in 2023, excluding Syrians under temporary protection. 93% lived in province and district centers. [28]

Population: 84,625,585 (2025 est.) Median age: 34.4 years (2025 est.) [29]

People within the 15–64 and 0–14 age groups corresponded to 68.3% and 21.4% of the total population, respectively. Those aged 65 years or older made up 10.2%. [30]

Urbanization: 77.5% of total population (2023) [31]

Between 1950 and 2020, Turkey's population more than quadrupled from 20.9 million to 83.6 million; however, the population growth rate was 0.1% in 2023. [32]

Major urban areas: 15.848 million Istanbul, 5.397 million ANKARA (capital), 3.088 million Izmir, 2.086 million Bursa, 1.836 million Adana, 1.805 million Gaziantep (2023) [33]

In 2023, the total fertility rate was 1.51 children per woman, below the replacement rate of 2.10 per woman. [34]

Life expectancy: 76.7 years (2024 est.) [35]

In a 2018 health survey, the ideal children number was 2.8 children per woman, rising to 3 per married woman. [36]

Literacy: 97.3% (2021 est.) [37]

Article 66 of the Turkish Constitution defines a Turk as anyone who is a citizen. It is estimated that there are at least 47 ethnic groups represented in Turkey. [38]

=== Military ===

Branches: Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK): Turkish Land Forces (Türk Kara Kuvvetleri), Turkish Naval Forces (Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri; includes naval air and naval infantry), Turkish Air Forces (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri); Ministry of Interior: Gendarmerie General Command (aka Gendarmerie of the Turkish Republic), Turkish Coast Guard Command, General Directorate of Security (National Police) (2025) Expenditures: 2.1% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 495,000 active military personnel; approximately 150,000 Gendarmerie (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is comprised of domestically produced and mostly European (such as Germany, Italy, and Spain) or US armaments; other suppliers have included [[Russia]] and South Korea; Türkiye's defense industry produces a range of weapons systems for both export and internal use, including armored vehicles, naval vessels, and unmanned aerial vehicles/drones; some of its domestically produced armaments are produced jointly with foreign partners or based on imported weapons systems and produced under license (2025) [39]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Turkey|Timeline: Turkey]] · [[Gaza]] · [[Syria]] · [[Iran]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 8 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +8 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
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== Sources ==
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* [1] Turkey Braces For Potential Gas Squeeze as U.S. Targets Iran Trade - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787709435.074589/
* [2] Forest fire in northwestern Turkey - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695864.908013/
* [6] Turkey seeks Interpol arrest warrant for Netanyahu over Gaza flotilla detention - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688912.431674/
* [8] Israel strikes military airbase in Syria while warning Turkey - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653124.744552/
* [13] Background: Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire by reformer and national hero Mustafa KEMAL, known as Ataturk or "Father of the Turks." One-party rule ended in 1950, and periods of instability and military coups have since fractured the multiparty democracy, in 1960, 1971, 1980, 1997, and 2016. - 1787695295.386042
* [14] Present-day Turkey has been inhabited by modern humans since the late Paleolithic period and contains some of the world's oldest Neolithic sites. - 1787707607.74635
* [15] Background: Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and NATO in 1952. - 1787695295.386042
* [16] Göbekli Tepe is close to 12,000 years old. - 1787707607.74635
* [17] Background: In 1963, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community; it began accession talks with the EU in 2005. - 1787695295.386042
* [18] Parts of Anatolia include the Fertile Crescent, an origin of agriculture. Other important Anatolian Neolithic sites include Çatalhöyük and Alaca Höyük. Neolithic Anatolian farmers differed genetically from farmers in Iran and Jordan Valley. These early Anatolian farmers also migrated into Europe, starting around 9,000 years ago. Troy's earliest layers go back to around 4500 BC. Anatolia's historical records start with clay tablets from approximately around 2000 BC that were found in modern-day Kültepe. - 1787707607.74635
* [19] Chief of state: President Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN (since 28 August 2014) Head of government: President Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN (since 9 July 2018) - 1787695295.386042
* [20] Location: Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria Area: 783,562 sq km Terrain: high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges Natural resources: coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower - 1787695295.386042
* [21] Climate: temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior - 1787695295.386042
* [22] In the 19th century, Turkish identity was debated in the Ottoman Empire, with three main views: Turkism, Islamism and Westernism. In addition to Europe or Islam, Turkish culture was also influenced by Anatolia's native cultures. After the establishment of the republic, Kemalism emphasized Turkish culture, attempted to make "Islam a matter of personal conviction", and pursued modernization. - 1787707607.74635
* [23] Ethnic groups: Turkish 70-75%, Kurdish 19%, other minorities 6-11% (2016 est.) - 1787695295.386042
* [24] Currently, Turkey has various local cultures. - 1787707607.74635
* [25] Languages: Turkish (official), Kurdish, other minority languages Religions: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews) - 1787695295.386042
* [26] Things such as music, folk dance, or kebap variety may be used to identify a local area. Turkey also has a national culture, such as national sports leagues, music bands, film stars, and trends in fashion. Turkey is home to 21 UNESCO World Heritage sites and 31 UNESCO intangible cultural heritage inscriptions. Turkey is home to numerous Neolithic settlements, such as Çatalhöyük. - 1787707607.74635
* [27] Government type: presidential republic Capital: Ankara Legal system: civil law system based on various European systems, notably the Swiss civil code - 1787695295.386042
* [28] According to the Address-Based Population Recording System, the country's population was 85,372,377 in 2023, excluding Syrians under temporary protection. 93% lived in province and district centers. - 1787707607.74635
* [29] Population: 84,625,585 (2025 est.) Median age: 34.4 years (2025 est.) - 1787695295.386042
* [30] People within the 15–64 and 0–14 age groups corresponded to 68.3% and 21.4% of the total population, respectively. Those aged 65 years or older made up 10.2%. - 1787707607.74635
* [31] Urbanization: 77.5% of total population (2023) - 1787695295.386042
* [32] Between 1950 and 2020, Turkey's population more than quadrupled from 20.9 million to 83.6 million; however, the population growth rate was 0.1% in 2023. - 1787707607.74635
* [33] Major urban areas: 15.848 million Istanbul, 5.397 million ANKARA (capital), 3.088 million Izmir, 2.086 million Bursa, 1.836 million Adana, 1.805 million Gaziantep (2023) - 1787695295.386042
* [34] In 2023, the total fertility rate was 1.51 children per woman, below the replacement rate of 2.10 per woman. - 1787707607.74635
* [35] Life expectancy: 76.7 years (2024 est.) - 1787695295.386042
* [36] In a 2018 health survey, the ideal children number was 2.8 children per woman, rising to 3 per married woman. - 1787707607.74635
* [37] Literacy: 97.3% (2021 est.) - 1787695295.386042
* [38] Article 66 of the Turkish Constitution defines a Turk as anyone who is a citizen. It is estimated that there are at least 47 ethnic groups represented in Turkey. - 1787707607.74635
* [39] Branches: Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK): Turkish Land Forces (Türk Kara Kuvvetleri), Turkish Naval Forces (Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri; includes naval air and naval infantry), Turkish Air Forces (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri); Ministry of Interior: Gendarmerie General Command (aka Gendarmerie of the Turkish Republic), Turkish Coast Guard Command, General Directorate of Security (National Police) (2025) Expenditures: 2.1% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 495,000 active military personnel; approximately 150,000 Gendarmerie (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is comprised of domestically produced and mostly European (such as Germany, Italy, and Spain) or US armaments; other suppliers have included Russia and South Korea; Türkiye's defense industry produces a range of weapons systems for both export and internal use, including armored vehicles, naval vessels, and unmanned aerial vehicles/drones; some of its domestically produced armaments are produced jointly with foreign partners or based on imported weapons systems and produced under license (2025) - 1787695295.386042

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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Russia

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{{Infobox place|name=Russia|type=Place or actor|region=russia ukraine|rows=90|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:russia-flag.png|thumb|220px|Russia flag. (Peter the Great, Public domain)]][[File:russia-map.png|thumb|220px|Russia locator map. (Ssolbergj, CC BY 3.0)]]}}

'''Russia''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'. - reported by Meduza|latest=Meduza}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-26 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - Meduza: The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'.
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: A new drone was found in Romania after Russia's attack on Ukraine
* [3] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite
* [4] 2026-08-24 - Meduza: Russia struck Odesa. Telegram channels report that the "Epitsentr" hypermarket is on fire.
* [5] 2026-08-24 - Ukrinform, Ukrainian state: Ukraine must be competitive with Russia in the number of drone strikes - Zelensky
* [6] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Russia to seize poorly protected infrastructure as Ukraine barrage persists
* [7] 2026-08-21 - Africanews: Kyiv residents search through the wreckage after Russia’s deadly barrage
* [8] 2026-08-14 - outlet not recorded: Russia dismisses idea of Black Sea ceasefire
* [9] 2026-07-03 - outlet not recorded: Russia’s triumphant tone shifts as Ukraine deploys ‘asymmetrical tactics’
* [10] 2026-06-29 - outlet not recorded: Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink
* [11] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* [12] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: Russia’s slow defeat – and Australia’s hard lesson
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy emerged from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and gradually conquered and absorbed surrounding principalities. [13]

The earliest evidence of human settlement in Russia dates to the Oldowan period during the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. [14]

In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. [15]

Flint tools, some 1.5 million years old, have been discovered in the North Caucasus. Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195–122,700 years ago. Fossils of Denny, an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, and lived some 90,000 years ago, was also found within the latter cave. Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at Kostyonki–Borshchyovo, and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years ago—both in western Russia. [16]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) [17]

=== Geography ===

Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean Area: 17,098,242 sq km Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber [18]

=== Climate ===

Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast [19]

=== Culture ===

Russian culture reflects a long, gradual, and complex amalgamation of various elements that coincided with centuries of development, expansion, and interaction with different peoples, artistic movements, and cultures. Russia has heavily influenced classical music, ballet, theatre, mathematics, sport, painting, and cinema. [20]

Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) [21]

Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European literature and thought. [22]

Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) [23]

Russia also made pioneering contributions to science, technology, and space exploration. [24]

Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) [25]

Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 21 of which are cultural, while 31 lie on the tentative list. The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry. The Russian Bear and Mother Russia are often used as national personifications of the country. [26]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential federation Capital: Moscow Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts [27]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) [28]

Russia had an estimated population of 146.0 million in 2025 (143.6 million excluding Crimea and Sevastopol), down from 147.2 million in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth-most populous country in the world. [29]

Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) [30]

With a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/mi2), Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries, with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part. [31]

Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) [32]

The country is highly urbanised, with two-thirds of the population living in urban areas. As of 2025, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.37 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world. [33]

Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) [34]

Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years. Russia's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis. In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration. [35]

=== Military ===

Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as [[Iran]] and North Korea to support its war on [[Ukraine]]; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) [36]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Russia|Timeline: Russia]] · [[Ukraine]]}}

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== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691593.267052/
* [2] A new drone was found in Romania after Russia's attack on Ukraine - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787680558.529847/
* [3] Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.228618/
* [4] Russia struck Odesa. Telegram channels report that the "Epitsentr" hypermarket is on fire. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619879/
* [5] Ukraine must be competitive with Russia in the number of drone strikes - Zelensky - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.185872/
* [6] Russia to seize poorly protected infrastructure as Ukraine barrage persists - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688388.715521/
* [7] Kyiv residents search through the wreckage after Russia’s deadly barrage - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688912.432327/
* [13] Background: Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy emerged from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and gradually conquered and absorbed surrounding principalities. - 1787695259.864763
* [14] The earliest evidence of human settlement in Russia dates to the Oldowan period during the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. - 1787707462.730062
* [15] Background: In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Background: Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. - 1787695259.864763
* [16] Flint tools, some 1.5 million years old, have been discovered in the North Caucasus. Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195–122,700 years ago. Fossils of Denny, an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, and lived some 90,000 years ago, was also found within the latter cave. Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at Kostyonki–Borshchyovo, and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years ago—both in western Russia. - 1787707462.730062
* [17] Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) - 1787695259.864763
* [18] Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean Area: 17,098,242 sq km Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber - 1787695259.864763
* [19] Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast - 1787695259.864763
* [20] Russian culture reflects a long, gradual, and complex amalgamation of various elements that coincided with centuries of development, expansion, and interaction with different peoples, artistic movements, and cultures. Russia has heavily influenced classical music, ballet, theatre, mathematics, sport, painting, and cinema. - 1787707462.730062
* [21] Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [22] Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European literature and thought. - 1787707462.730062
* [23] Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [24] Russia also made pioneering contributions to science, technology, and space exploration. - 1787707462.730062
* [25] Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [26] Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 21 of which are cultural, while 31 lie on the tentative list. The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry. The Russian Bear and Mother Russia are often used as national personifications of the country. - 1787707462.730062
* [27] Government type: semi-presidential federation Capital: Moscow Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts - 1787695259.864763
* [28] Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [29] Russia had an estimated population of 146.0 million in 2025 (143.6 million excluding Crimea and Sevastopol), down from 147.2 million in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth-most populous country in the world. - 1787707462.730062
* [30] Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) - 1787695259.864763
* [31] With a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/mi2), Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries, with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part. - 1787707462.730062
* [32] Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) - 1787695259.864763
* [33] The country is highly urbanised, with two-thirds of the population living in urban areas. As of 2025, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.37 children born per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world. - 1787707462.730062
* [34] Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) - 1787695259.864763
* [35] Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years. Russia's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis. In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration. - 1787707462.730062
* [36] Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as Iran and North Korea to support its war on Ukraine; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) - 1787695259.864763

== How this page is made ==
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[[Category:Conflicts]]

Pakistan

2026-08-26T02:09:19Z

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{{Infobox place|name=Pakistan|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=91|asof=2026-08-24|image=[[File:pakistan-flag.png|thumb|220px|Pakistan flag. (User:Zscout370, Public domain)]][[File:pakistan-map.png|thumb|220px|Pakistan locator map. (Atin Bhattacharya, CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''Pakistan''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-24|summary=Most recent archived item: Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran - reported by IRNA, Iranian state|latest=IRNA, Iranian state}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-24}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-24 - IRNA, Iranian state: Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran
* [2] 2026-08-23 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: Iran says Pakistan's army chief to visit Tehran on Monday
* [3] 2026-08-21 - mfa.gov.tr: Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of Türkiye , Algeria , Indonesia , Jordan , Lebanon , Malaysia , Mauritania , Pakistan , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and Somalia , 21 August 2026 / Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* [4] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Pakistan, 11 Muslim nations urge global action to halt Israeli strikes on Syria
* [5] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Syria discuss bilateral ties, regional and global developments
* [6] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [7] 2026-08-15 - star.com.tr: Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals.
* [8] 2026-08-12 - outlet not recorded: U.S. and Iran close to a "peace arrangement or a deal," Pakistan says
* [9] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-11 - jns.org: Pakistan , India , and Israel expanding eastern front
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 79 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world and dating back at least 5,000 years, spread over much of modern-day Pakistan. [13]

Some of the earliest ancient human civilisations in South Asia originated from areas encompassing present-day Pakistan. [14]

During the second millennium B.C., remnants of this culture fused with the migrating Indo-Aryan peoples. [15]

The earliest known stone tools in the region, dating to the Lower Palaeolithic (~2 million years ago), were discovered in the Soan Valley of northern Pakistan. [16]

The area underwent successive invasions in subsequent centuries from the Persians, Greeks, Scythians, Arabs (who brought Islam), Afghans, and Turks. [17]

The Indus plain region, which covers most of the present-day Pakistan, was the site of several successive ancient cultures including the Neolithic (7000–4300 BCE) site of Mehrgarh, and the 5,000-year history of urban life in South Asia to the various sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation, including Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Following the decline of the Indus Valley Civilisation, semi-nomadic Indo-European Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent around 2000 BCE, perhaps by way of the Khyber Pass. They fused with the indigenous Harappan culture of the Indus Valley, and elements of the pre-Aryan spiritual traditions were assimilated into the developing Vedic tradition. This cultural milieu shaped the Gandhara Civilisation, which flourished at the crossroads of India, Central Asia, and the Middle East, connecting trade routes and absorbing cultural influences from diverse civilisations. By the early Vedic period, parts of the Indus region in present-day Pakistan were populated by numerous tribes that were beginning to coalesce into chieftain-led clans and early kingdoms. During this period, the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President Asif Ali ZARDARI (since 10 March 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz SHARIF (since 3 March 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and [[Iran]] and Afghanistan on the west and [[China]] in the north Area: 796,095 sq km Terrain: divided into three major geographic areas: the northern highlands, the Indus River plain in the center and east, and the Balochistan Plateau in the south and west Natural resources: arable land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north [21]

=== Culture ===

Civil society in Pakistan is hierarchical, emphasising local cultural etiquette and traditional Islamic values. The primary family unit is the extended family, but there's a rising trend towards nuclear families due to socio-economic factors. Both men and women typically wear Shalwar Kameez; men also favour trousers, jeans, and shirts. [22]

Ethnic groups: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Baloch 3.6%, other 6.3% Languages: Punjabi 38.8%, Pashto (alternate name, Pashtu) 18.2%, Sindhi 14.6%, Saraiki (a Punjabi variant) 12.2%, Urdu 7.1%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2.4%, Brahui 1.2%, other 2.4% [23]

The middle class has grown to about 35 million, with another 17 million in the upper and upper-middle classes, leading to a shift in power from rural landowners to urban elites. Festivals like Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Azha, Ramadan, Christmas, Easter, Holi, and Diwali are primarily religious. [24]

Religions: Muslim 96.4%, Hindu 1.6%, Christian 1.4%; less than 1%: scheduled castes, Qadiani/Ahmadi, other, Sikh. [25]

Pakistan ranked 56th on the 2006 A.T. [26]

Religions: (2020 est.) [27]

Kearney/FP Globalization Index due to increasing globalisation. Four periods define Pakistani architecture: pre-Islamic, Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: federal parliamentary republic Capital: Islamabad Legal system: common law system with Islamic law influence [29]

=== Demographics ===

Since independence due to the partition of India, urbanisation has surged for various reasons. In the south, Karachi stands as the most populous commercial hub along the Indus River. [30]

Population: 257,047,044 (2025 est.) [31]

In the east, west, and north, a dense population arc spans cities like Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Jhelum, Sheikhupura, Nowshera, Mardan, and Peshawar. [32]

Median age: 23.2 years (2025 est.) [33]

By 1990–2008, city dwellers constituted 36% of Pakistan's population, making it South Asia's most urbanised nation, with over 50% living in towns of 5,000+ inhabitants. [34]

Urbanization: 38% of total population (2023) [35]

Immigration, both domestic and international, significantly fuels urban growth. [36]

Major urban areas: 17.236 million Karachi, 13.979 million Lahore, 3.711 million Faisalabad, 2.415 million Gujranwala, 2.412 million Peshawar, 1.232 million ISLAMABAD (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 70.3 years (2024 est.) [37]

Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis, and from nearby countries, accelerates urbanisation, posing new political and socio-economic challenges. Economic shifts like the green revolution and political developments also play crucial roles. [38]

Literacy: 58.9% (2021 est.) [39]

Pakistan is a diverse society with estimates suggesting it has between 75 and 85 languages. [40]

=== Military ===

Branches: Pakistan Armed Forces: Pakistan Army (includes National Guard), Pakistan Navy (includes Pakistan Marines, Pakistan Maritime Security Agency), Pakistan Air Force; Ministry of Interior: Frontier Constabulary, Frontier Corps, National Police, Pakistan Coast Guard, Punjab (Pakistan) Rangers, Sindh (Pakistan) Rangers (2025) Expenditures: 2.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 650,000 active Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of mostly imported and some domestically produced armaments; the majority of its imported weapons are from [[China]]; other suppliers include France, [[Russia]], Türkiye, [[Ukraine]], the UK, and the US; Pakistan also has a domestic defense industry, which produces or co-produces such items as armored vehicles, aircraft, missiles, naval vessels (2025) [41]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Pakistan|Timeline: Pakistan]] · [[Iran]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 9 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +7 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787686101.586531/
* [2] Iran says Pakistan's army chief to visit Tehran on Monday - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502771/
* [3] Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of Türkiye , Algeria , Indonesia , Jordan , Lebanon , Malaysia , Mauritania , Pakistan , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and Somalia , 21 August 2026 / Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.22906/
* [7] Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229412/
* [11] Pakistan , India , and Israel expanding eastern front - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229004/
* [13] Background: The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world and dating back at least 5,000 years, spread over much of modern-day Pakistan. - 1787695250.244135
* [14] Some of the earliest ancient human civilisations in South Asia originated from areas encompassing present-day Pakistan. - 1787707422.231362
* [15] Background: During the second millennium B.C., remnants of this culture fused with the migrating Indo-Aryan peoples. - 1787695250.244135
* [16] The earliest known stone tools in the region, dating to the Lower Palaeolithic (~2 million years ago), were discovered in the Soan Valley of northern Pakistan. - 1787707422.231362
* [17] Background: The area underwent successive invasions in subsequent centuries from the Persians, Greeks, Scythians, Arabs (who brought Islam), Afghans, and Turks. - 1787695250.244135
* [18] The Indus plain region, which covers most of the present-day Pakistan, was the site of several successive ancient cultures including the Neolithic (7000–4300 BCE) site of Mehrgarh, and the 5,000-year history of urban life in South Asia to the various sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation, including Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Following the decline of the Indus Valley Civilisation, semi-nomadic Indo-European Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent around 2000 BCE, perhaps by way of the Khyber Pass. They fused with the indigenous Harappan culture of the Indus Valley, and elements of the pre-Aryan spiritual traditions were assimilated into the developing Vedic tradition. This cultural milieu shaped the Gandhara Civilisation, which flourished at the crossroads of India, Central Asia, and the Middle East, connecting trade routes and absorbing cultural influences from diverse civilisations. By the early Vedic period, parts of the Indus region in present-day Pakistan were populated by numerous tribes that were beginning to coalesce into chieftain-led clans and early kingdoms. During this period, the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed. - 1787707422.231362
* [19] Chief of state: President Asif Ali ZARDARI (since 10 March 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz SHARIF (since 3 March 2024) - 1787695250.244135
* [20] Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north Area: 796,095 sq km Terrain: divided into three major geographic areas: the northern highlands, the Indus River plain in the center and east, and the Balochistan Plateau in the south and west Natural resources: arable land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone - 1787695250.244135
* [21] Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north - 1787695250.244135
* [22] Civil society in Pakistan is hierarchical, emphasising local cultural etiquette and traditional Islamic values. The primary family unit is the extended family, but there's a rising trend towards nuclear families due to socio-economic factors. Both men and women typically wear Shalwar Kameez; men also favour trousers, jeans, and shirts. - 1787707422.231362
* [23] Ethnic groups: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Baloch 3.6%, other 6.3% Languages: Punjabi 38.8%, Pashto (alternate name, Pashtu) 18.2%, Sindhi 14.6%, Saraiki (a Punjabi variant) 12.2%, Urdu 7.1%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2.4%, Brahui 1.2%, other 2.4% - 1787695250.244135
* [24] The middle class has grown to about 35 million, with another 17 million in the upper and upper-middle classes, leading to a shift in power from rural landowners to urban elites. Festivals like Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Azha, Ramadan, Christmas, Easter, Holi, and Diwali are primarily religious. - 1787707422.231362
* [25] Religions: Muslim 96.4%, Hindu 1.6%, Christian 1.4%; less than 1%: scheduled castes, Qadiani/Ahmadi, other, Sikh. - 1787695250.244135
* [26] Pakistan ranked 56th on the 2006 A.T. - 1787707422.231362
* [27] Religions: (2020 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [28] Kearney/FP Globalization Index due to increasing globalisation. Four periods define Pakistani architecture: pre-Islamic, Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial. - 1787707422.231362
* [29] Government type: federal parliamentary republic Capital: Islamabad Legal system: common law system with Islamic law influence - 1787695250.244135
* [30] Since independence due to the partition of India, urbanisation has surged for various reasons. In the south, Karachi stands as the most populous commercial hub along the Indus River. - 1787707422.231362
* [31] Population: 257,047,044 (2025 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [32] In the east, west, and north, a dense population arc spans cities like Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Jhelum, Sheikhupura, Nowshera, Mardan, and Peshawar. - 1787707422.231362
* [33] Median age: 23.2 years (2025 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [34] By 1990–2008, city dwellers constituted 36% of Pakistan's population, making it South Asia's most urbanised nation, with over 50% living in towns of 5,000+ inhabitants. - 1787707422.231362
* [35] Urbanization: 38% of total population (2023) - 1787695250.244135
* [36] Immigration, both domestic and international, significantly fuels urban growth. - 1787707422.231362
* [37] Major urban areas: 17.236 million Karachi, 13.979 million Lahore, 3.711 million Faisalabad, 2.415 million Gujranwala, 2.412 million Peshawar, 1.232 million ISLAMABAD (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 70.3 years (2024 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [38] Migration from India, especially to Karachi, the largest metropolis, and from nearby countries, accelerates urbanisation, posing new political and socio-economic challenges. Economic shifts like the green revolution and political developments also play crucial roles. - 1787707422.231362
* [39] Literacy: 58.9% (2021 est.) - 1787695250.244135
* [40] Pakistan is a diverse society with estimates suggesting it has between 75 and 85 languages. - 1787707422.231362
* [41] Branches: Pakistan Armed Forces: Pakistan Army (includes National Guard), Pakistan Navy (includes Pakistan Marines, Pakistan Maritime Security Agency), Pakistan Air Force; Ministry of Interior: Frontier Constabulary, Frontier Corps, National Police, Pakistan Coast Guard, Punjab (Pakistan) Rangers, Sindh (Pakistan) Rangers (2025) Expenditures: 2.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 650,000 active Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of mostly imported and some domestically produced armaments; the majority of its imported weapons are from China; other suppliers include France, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine, the UK, and the US; Pakistan also has a domestic defense industry, which produces or co-produces such items as armored vehicles, aircraft, missiles, naval vessels (2025) - 1787695250.244135

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Taiwan

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'''Taiwan''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-21|summary=Most recent archived item: How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei - reported by USNI News|latest=USNI News}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-21 - USNI News: How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei
* [2] 2026-08-20 - The Diplomat: China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan
* [3] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Netanyahu's office: Syria risked status quo
* [6] 2026-08-15 - star.com.tr: Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals.
* [7] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [8] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [10] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Xi reaffirms Taiwan reunification goal on CCP's 105th anniversary, North Korea pledges solidarity
* [11] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* [12] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* ...and 77 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). [13]

Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland in the Late Pleistocene, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. [14]

In 1895, military defeat forced [[China]]'s Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. [15]

Human remains and Paleolithic artifacts dated 20,000 to 30,000 years ago have been found. [16]

Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II. [17]

Study of the human remains suggested they were Australo-Papuan people similar to Negrito populations in the Philippines. Paleolithic Taiwanese likely settled the Ryukyu Islands 30,000 years ago although other studies suggest no genetic contribution from the aborigines of Taiwan into Ryukyuans. Slash-and-burn agriculture practices started at least 11,000 years ago. Stone tools of the Changbin culture have been found in Taitung and Eluanbi. Archaeological remains suggest they were initially hunter-gatherers that slowly shifted to intensive fishing. The distinct Wangxing culture, found along the Jingshan River of Miaoli County, seemed to have initially been gatherers who shifted to hunting. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President LAI Ching-te (since 20 May 2024) Head of government: Premier CHO Jung-tai (President of the Executive Yuan) (since 20 May 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East [[China]] Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of China Area: 35,980 sq km Terrain: eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west Natural resources: small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, asbestos, arable land [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: tropical; marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); persistent and extensive cloudiness all year [21]

=== Culture ===

The cultures of Taiwan are a hybrid blend from various sources, incorporating elements of the majority traditional Chinese culture, aboriginal cultures, Japanese cultural influence, traditional Confucianist beliefs, and increasingly, Western values. During the martial law period, the Kuomintang promoted an official traditional Chinese culture over Taiwan in order to emphasize that the Republic of [[China]] represents the true orthodoxy to Chinese Culture as opposed to Communist China. [22]

Ethnic groups: Han Chinese (including Holo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland [[China]]) more than 95%, indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples 2.3% [23]

The government launched what's known as the Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan in opposition to the cultural destructions caused by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution. [24]

Languages: Mandarin (official), Min Nan, Hakka dialects, approximately 16 indigenous languages [25]

The General Assembly of Chinese Culture was established to help promote Chinese culture in Taiwan and overseas. It was Kuomintang's first structured plan for cultural development on Taiwan. [26]

Religions: Buddhist 35.3%, Taoist 33.2%, Christian 3.9%, folk religion (includes Confucian) approximately 10%, none or unspecified 18.2% (2005 est.) [27]

The Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan had led to some aspects of Chinese Culture being better preserved there than in mainland [[China]], for example the continued use of Traditional Chinese. The influence of Confucianism can be found in the behavior of Taiwanese people, known for their friendliness and politeness. The lifting of martial law ushered a period of democratization whereby Freedom of Speech and Expression led to a flourishing Taiwanese literature and mass media in Taiwan. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Taipei Legal system: civil law system [29]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 23,600,776 (2025 est.) [30]

Taiwan has a population of about 23.3 million, most of whom are on the island of Taiwan. [31]

Median age: 45.1 years (2025 est.) [32]

The remainder live on the outlying islands of Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. It has one of the world's lowest fertility rates, with the average number of children born per woman falling below 0.8, far beneath the replacement level of 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population. [33]

Urbanization: 80.1% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 4.504 million New Taipei City, 2.754 million TAIPEI (capital), 2.319 million Taoyuan, 1.553 million Kaohsiung, 1.369 million Taichung, 863,000 Tainan (2023) [34]

Under United Nations criteria, Taiwan has become a super-aged society, with more than 20% of its population aged 65 or older. [35]

Life expectancy: 81.6 years (2024 est.) [36]

The aging population has raised concerns about the long-term sustainability of Taiwan's National Health Insurance system, as a shrinking workforce supports a growing elderly population. Declining birth rates have also led to falling school enrollments, resulting in the merger or closure of some rural elementary and middle schools, with similar pressures increasingly affecting universities. Labor shortages have emerged across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and elderly care. The figures below are the December 2025 estimates for the ten most populous administrative divisions; a different ranking exists when considering the total metropolitan area populations (in such rankings the Taipei-Keelung metro area is by far the largest agglomeration). [37]

=== Military ===

Branches: Taiwan Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force, Information Communication and Electronic Force (ICEF); Ocean Affairs Council: Coast Guard Administration (CGA); Ministry of Interior: National Police (2025) Expenditures: 2.4% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 170,000 active duty Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of domestically produced and foreign-supplied armaments, mostly from the US either as secondhand or direct acquisitions; Taiwan's domestic defense industry produces weapons systems such as aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, and naval platforms (2025) [38]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Taiwan|Timeline: Taiwan]] · [[China]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 3 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +10 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.50226/
* [2] China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691299.924407/
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229412/
* [13] Background: First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). - 1787695286.193155
* [14] Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland in the Late Pleistocene, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. - 1787707564.605905
* [15] Background: In 1895, military defeat forced China's Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. - 1787695286.193155
* [16] Human remains and Paleolithic artifacts dated 20,000 to 30,000 years ago have been found. - 1787707564.605905
* [17] Background: Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II. - 1787695286.193155
* [18] Study of the human remains suggested they were Australo-Papuan people similar to Negrito populations in the Philippines. Paleolithic Taiwanese likely settled the Ryukyu Islands 30,000 years ago although other studies suggest no genetic contribution from the aborigines of Taiwan into Ryukyuans. Slash-and-burn agriculture practices started at least 11,000 years ago. Stone tools of the Changbin culture have been found in Taitung and Eluanbi. Archaeological remains suggest they were initially hunter-gatherers that slowly shifted to intensive fishing. The distinct Wangxing culture, found along the Jingshan River of Miaoli County, seemed to have initially been gatherers who shifted to hunting. - 1787707564.605905
* [19] Chief of state: President LAI Ching-te (since 20 May 2024) Head of government: Premier CHO Jung-tai (President of the Executive Yuan) (since 20 May 2024) - 1787695286.193155
* [20] Location: Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of China Area: 35,980 sq km Terrain: eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently rolling plains in west Natural resources: small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, asbestos, arable land - 1787695286.193155
* [21] Climate: tropical; marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); persistent and extensive cloudiness all year - 1787695286.193155
* [22] The cultures of Taiwan are a hybrid blend from various sources, incorporating elements of the majority traditional Chinese culture, aboriginal cultures, Japanese cultural influence, traditional Confucianist beliefs, and increasingly, Western values. During the martial law period, the Kuomintang promoted an official traditional Chinese culture over Taiwan in order to emphasize that the Republic of China represents the true orthodoxy to Chinese Culture as opposed to Communist China. - 1787707564.605905
* [23] Ethnic groups: Han Chinese (including Holo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland China) more than 95%, indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples 2.3% - 1787695286.193155
* [24] The government launched what's known as the Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan in opposition to the cultural destructions caused by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution. - 1787707564.605905
* [25] Languages: Mandarin (official), Min Nan, Hakka dialects, approximately 16 indigenous languages - 1787695286.193155
* [26] The General Assembly of Chinese Culture was established to help promote Chinese culture in Taiwan and overseas. It was Kuomintang's first structured plan for cultural development on Taiwan. - 1787707564.605905
* [27] Religions: Buddhist 35.3%, Taoist 33.2%, Christian 3.9%, folk religion (includes Confucian) approximately 10%, none or unspecified 18.2% (2005 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [28] The Chinese Cultural Renaissance movement in Taiwan had led to some aspects of Chinese Culture being better preserved there than in mainland China, for example the continued use of Traditional Chinese. The influence of Confucianism can be found in the behavior of Taiwanese people, known for their friendliness and politeness. The lifting of martial law ushered a period of democratization whereby Freedom of Speech and Expression led to a flourishing Taiwanese literature and mass media in Taiwan. - 1787707564.605905
* [29] Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Taipei Legal system: civil law system - 1787695286.193155
* [30] Population: 23,600,776 (2025 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [31] Taiwan has a population of about 23.3 million, most of whom are on the island of Taiwan. - 1787707564.605905
* [32] Median age: 45.1 years (2025 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [33] The remainder live on the outlying islands of Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. It has one of the world's lowest fertility rates, with the average number of children born per woman falling below 0.8, far beneath the replacement level of 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population. - 1787707564.605905
* [34] Urbanization: 80.1% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 4.504 million New Taipei City, 2.754 million TAIPEI (capital), 2.319 million Taoyuan, 1.553 million Kaohsiung, 1.369 million Taichung, 863,000 Tainan (2023) - 1787695286.193155
* [35] Under United Nations criteria, Taiwan has become a super-aged society, with more than 20% of its population aged 65 or older. - 1787707564.605905
* [36] Life expectancy: 81.6 years (2024 est.) - 1787695286.193155
* [37] The aging population has raised concerns about the long-term sustainability of Taiwan's National Health Insurance system, as a shrinking workforce supports a growing elderly population. Declining birth rates have also led to falling school enrollments, resulting in the merger or closure of some rural elementary and middle schools, with similar pressures increasingly affecting universities. Labor shortages have emerged across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and elderly care. The figures below are the December 2025 estimates for the ten most populous administrative divisions; a different ranking exists when considering the total metropolitan area populations (in such rankings the Taipei-Keelung metro area is by far the largest agglomeration). - 1787707564.605905
* [38] Branches: Taiwan Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force, Information Communication and Electronic Force (ICEF); Ocean Affairs Council: Coast Guard Administration (CGA); Ministry of Interior: National Police (2025) Expenditures: 2.4% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 170,000 active duty Armed Forces (2025) Equipment: the military's inventory is a mix of domestically produced and foreign-supplied armaments, mostly from the US either as secondhand or direct acquisitions; Taiwan's domestic defense industry produces weapons systems such as aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, and naval platforms (2025) - 1787695286.193155

== How this page is made ==
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DR Congo

2026-08-26T02:09:18Z

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{{Infobox place|name=DR Congo|type=Place or actor|region=middle east|rows=90|asof=2026-08-24|image=[[File:dr-congo-flag.png|thumb|220px|DR Congo flag. (Nightstallion, Public domain)]][[File:dr-congo-map.png|thumb|220px|DR Congo locator map. (Connormah, CC BY-SA 3.0)]]}}

'''DR Congo''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-24|summary=Most recent archived item: Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo - reported by Al Jazeera|latest=Al Jazeera}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-24}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Nearly one in two Ebola patients dying in DR Congo outbreak
* [3] 2026-08-21 - UN News: DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreading exponentially, UN responders warn
* [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
* [6] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
* [7] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
* [8] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
* [9] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [11] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Bantu, Sudanic, and other migrants from West and Northeastern Africa arrived in the Congo River Basin between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 500. [13]

The area of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo was inhabited as early as 90,000 years ago, and later underwent major demographic and technological change with the expansion of Bantu peoples during the first millennium BC. [14]

The territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 200 ethnic groups that trace their histories to many communal organizations and kingdoms. [15]

From this process emerged organised states and empires, including early federated states around Pool Malebo and later the Kingdom of Kongo, as well many others such as the Luba and Lunda Empires. [16]

The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, ruled the area around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. [17]

From the 1870s to 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium established and ruled the Congo Free State as his personal possession, using forced labour and concessionary companies to extract rubber, while violence, disease, and exploitation caused catastrophic population loss. International exposure of the abuses, notably through the 1904 Casement Report and growing diplomatic pressure, led to Leopold's loss of control and the annexation of the territory as the Belgian Congo in 1908. The Belgian Congo was governed directly from Brussels, and although this change in administration ended the most extreme abuses of the Congo Free State, Belgian rule largely continued earlier patterns of direct control, racial segregation, forced labour, and repression, while prioritising economic exploitation through close cooperation between the state, missionaries, and private companies. After World War II, urbanisation, development programmes, and limited social improvements fostered a small African middle class, but political exclusion persisted, contributing to the rise of nationalist movements and escalating demands for independence in the late 1950s. In May 1960, a growing nationalist movement, the Congolese National Movement led by Patrice Lumumba, won the parliamentary elections. Lumumba became the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, on 24 June 1960. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President Felix TSHISEKEDI (since 20 January 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Judith SUMINWA Tuluka (since 29 May 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola Area: 2,344,858 sq km Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east Natural resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of Equator - wet season (April to October), dry season (December to February); south of Equator - wet season (November to March), dry season (April to October) [21]

=== Culture ===

The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reflects the diversity of its numerous ethnic groups and their differing ways of life throughout the country—from the mouth of the River Congo on the coast, upriver through the rainforest and savanna in its centre, to the more densely populated mountains in the far east. Since the late 19th century, traditional ways of life have undergone changes brought about by colonialism, the struggle for independence, the stagnation of the Mobutu era, and most recently, the First and Second Congo Wars. Despite these pressures, the customs and cultures of the Congo have retained much of their individuality. [22]

Ethnic groups: more than 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest groups - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) - make up about 45% of the population Languages: French (official), Lingala (a trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba [23]

The country's 81 million inhabitants (2016) are mainly rural. [24]

Religions: Christian 93/1% (Roman Catholic 29.9%, Protestant 26.7%, other Christian 36.5%), Kimbanguist 2.8%, Muslim 1.3%, other (includes syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs) 1.2%, none 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2014 est.) [25]

The 30% who live in urban areas have been the most open to Western influences. French-language Congolese literature developed particularly from the end of World War II, during the period of the Belgian Congo. Early figures included Antoine-Roger Bolamba and Paul Lomami-Tshibamba. After independence, Congolese literature diversified, with V. [26]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Kinshasa Legal system: civil law system primarily based on Belgian law, but also customary and tribal law [27]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 119,038,825 (2025 est.) [28]

The DRC has a high annual population growth rate, and the population increased from 51.9 million in 2000 to 105 million in 2021. Between 1950 and 2000, the country's population nearly quadrupled from 12.2 million to 46.9 million. [29]

Median age: 16.9 years (2025 est.) [30]

In 2026, 52% of the population had access to water services (29% in rural areas). 31% have access to sanitation services (21% in rural areas). [31]

Urbanization: 47.4% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 16.316 million KINSHASA (capital), 2.892 million Mbuji-Mayi, 2.812 million Lubumbashi, 1.664 million Kananga, 1.423 million Kisangani, 1.249 million Bukavu (2023) [32]

The DRC also lacks state-sponsored social safety nets, with 12% of formal workers, mostly government employees, being enrolled in the National Social Security Fund. [33]

Life expectancy: 62.6 years (2024 est.) [34]

Over 250 ethnic groups and 450 tribes (ethnic subgroups) populate the DRC. [35]

Literacy: 73.6% (2018 est.) [36]

They are in the Bantu, Sudanic, Nilotic, Ubangian and Pygmy linguistic groups. Because of this diversity, there is no dominant ethnic group in the Congo, however the following ethnic groups account for 51.5% of the population: Luba-Kasaï Kongo Mongo Lubakat Lulua Tetela Nande Ngbandi Ngombe Yaka Ngbaka In 2021, the UN estimated the country's population to be 96 million, a rapid increase from 39.1 million in 1992 despite the ongoing war. As many as 250 ethnic groups have been identified and named. [37]

=== Military ===

Branches: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces d'Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo, FARDC): Land Forces (Forces Terrestres), National Navy (La Marine Nationale), Congolese Air Force (Force Aerienne Congolaise, FAC); Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine, GR); Ministry of Interior: Congolese National Police (Police Nationale Congolaise, PNC) (2025) Expenditures: 1.2% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 100-150,000 active FARDC (2025) Equipment: the FARDC is equipped mostly with Soviet-era and older French armaments; in recent years, it has received some more modern equipment, such as armored vehicles and armed drones, from [[China]], South Africa, [[Turkey]], and the UAE (2025) [38]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:DR Congo|Timeline: DR Congo]]}}

== Publication history ==
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== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502951/
* [2] Nearly one in two Ebola patients dying in DR Congo outbreak - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691197.426235/
* [3] DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreading exponentially, UN responders warn - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691197.426052/
* [4] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [6] İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787694306.464256/
* [13] Background: Bantu, Sudanic, and other migrants from West and Northeastern Africa arrived in the Congo River Basin between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 500. - 1787695220.395812
* [14] The area of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo was inhabited as early as 90,000 years ago, and later underwent major demographic and technological change with the expansion of Bantu peoples during the first millennium BC. - 1787707335.061451
* [15] Background: The territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 200 ethnic groups that trace their histories to many communal organizations and kingdoms. - 1787695220.395812
* [16] From this process emerged organised states and empires, including early federated states around Pool Malebo and later the Kingdom of Kongo, as well many others such as the Luba and Lunda Empires. - 1787707335.061451
* [17] Background: The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, ruled the area around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. - 1787695220.395812
* [18] From the 1870s to 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium established and ruled the Congo Free State as his personal possession, using forced labour and concessionary companies to extract rubber, while violence, disease, and exploitation caused catastrophic population loss. International exposure of the abuses, notably through the 1904 Casement Report and growing diplomatic pressure, led to Leopold's loss of control and the annexation of the territory as the Belgian Congo in 1908. The Belgian Congo was governed directly from Brussels, and although this change in administration ended the most extreme abuses of the Congo Free State, Belgian rule largely continued earlier patterns of direct control, racial segregation, forced labour, and repression, while prioritising economic exploitation through close cooperation between the state, missionaries, and private companies. After World War II, urbanisation, development programmes, and limited social improvements fostered a small African middle class, but political exclusion persisted, contributing to the rise of nationalist movements and escalating demands for independence in the late 1950s. In May 1960, a growing nationalist movement, the Congolese National Movement led by Patrice Lumumba, won the parliamentary elections. Lumumba became the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, on 24 June 1960. - 1787707335.061451
* [19] Chief of state: President Felix TSHISEKEDI (since 20 January 2024) Head of government: Prime Minister Judith SUMINWA Tuluka (since 29 May 2024) - 1787695220.395812
* [20] Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola Area: 2,344,858 sq km Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east Natural resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber - 1787695220.395812
* [21] Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of Equator - wet season (April to October), dry season (December to February); south of Equator - wet season (November to March), dry season (April to October) - 1787695220.395812
* [22] The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reflects the diversity of its numerous ethnic groups and their differing ways of life throughout the country—from the mouth of the River Congo on the coast, upriver through the rainforest and savanna in its centre, to the more densely populated mountains in the far east. Since the late 19th century, traditional ways of life have undergone changes brought about by colonialism, the struggle for independence, the stagnation of the Mobutu era, and most recently, the First and Second Congo Wars. Despite these pressures, the customs and cultures of the Congo have retained much of their individuality. - 1787707335.061451
* [23] Ethnic groups: more than 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest groups - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) - make up about 45% of the population Languages: French (official), Lingala (a trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba - 1787695220.395812
* [24] The country's 81 million inhabitants (2016) are mainly rural. - 1787707335.061451
* [25] Religions: Christian 93/1% (Roman Catholic 29.9%, Protestant 26.7%, other Christian 36.5%), Kimbanguist 2.8%, Muslim 1.3%, other (includes syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs) 1.2%, none 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2014 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [26] The 30% who live in urban areas have been the most open to Western influences. French-language Congolese literature developed particularly from the end of World War II, during the period of the Belgian Congo. Early figures included Antoine-Roger Bolamba and Paul Lomami-Tshibamba. After independence, Congolese literature diversified, with V. - 1787707335.061451
* [27] Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Kinshasa Legal system: civil law system primarily based on Belgian law, but also customary and tribal law - 1787695220.395812
* [28] Population: 119,038,825 (2025 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [29] The DRC has a high annual population growth rate, and the population increased from 51.9 million in 2000 to 105 million in 2021. Between 1950 and 2000, the country's population nearly quadrupled from 12.2 million to 46.9 million. - 1787707335.061451
* [30] Median age: 16.9 years (2025 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [31] In 2026, 52% of the population had access to water services (29% in rural areas). 31% have access to sanitation services (21% in rural areas). - 1787707335.061451
* [32] Urbanization: 47.4% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 16.316 million KINSHASA (capital), 2.892 million Mbuji-Mayi, 2.812 million Lubumbashi, 1.664 million Kananga, 1.423 million Kisangani, 1.249 million Bukavu (2023) - 1787695220.395812
* [33] The DRC also lacks state-sponsored social safety nets, with 12% of formal workers, mostly government employees, being enrolled in the National Social Security Fund. - 1787707335.061451
* [34] Life expectancy: 62.6 years (2024 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [35] Over 250 ethnic groups and 450 tribes (ethnic subgroups) populate the DRC. - 1787707335.061451
* [36] Literacy: 73.6% (2018 est.) - 1787695220.395812
* [37] They are in the Bantu, Sudanic, Nilotic, Ubangian and Pygmy linguistic groups. Because of this diversity, there is no dominant ethnic group in the Congo, however the following ethnic groups account for 51.5% of the population: Luba-Kasaï Kongo Mongo Lubakat Lulua Tetela Nande Ngbandi Ngombe Yaka Ngbaka In 2021, the UN estimated the country's population to be 96 million, a rapid increase from 39.1 million in 1992 despite the ongoing war. As many as 250 ethnic groups have been identified and named. - 1787707335.061451
* [38] Branches: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces d'Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo, FARDC): Land Forces (Forces Terrestres), National Navy (La Marine Nationale), Congolese Air Force (Force Aerienne Congolaise, FAC); Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine, GR); Ministry of Interior: Congolese National Police (Police Nationale Congolaise, PNC) (2025) Expenditures: 1.2% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: estimated 100-150,000 active FARDC (2025) Equipment: the FARDC is equipped mostly with Soviet-era and older French armaments; in recent years, it has received some more modern equipment, such as armored vehicles and armed drones, from China, South Africa, Turkey, and the UAE (2025) - 1787695220.395812

== How this page is made ==
Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background sources: CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[[Category:Conflicts]]

China

2026-08-26T02:09:18Z

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{{Infobox place|name=China|type=Place or actor|region=indo pacific|rows=90|asof=2026-08-25|image=[[File:china-flag.png|thumb|220px|China flag. (Zeng Liansong, Public domain)]][[File:china-map.png|thumb|220px|China locator map. (Ssolbergj, CC BY-SA 4.0)]]}}

'''China''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-25|summary=Most recent archived item: China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action - reported by The Diplomat|latest=The Diplomat}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-25 - The Diplomat: China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action
* [2] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam
* [3] 2026-08-22 - The War Zone: China’s Next Aircraft Carrier Is Taking Shape
* [4] 2026-08-21 - The War Zone: China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization
* [5] 2026-08-21 - The Diplomat: Ahead of Xi Visit, US Designates American Held in China as ‘Wrongfully Detained’
* [6] 2026-08-21 - The Diplomat: After 9 Years, China Is Reopening Its Borders To Recycled Plastic
* [7] 2026-08-20 - The War Zone: Our Best Look At China’s New Y-15 Turboprop Airlifter
* [8] 2026-08-20 - The Diplomat: China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan
* [9] 2026-08-01 - outlet not recorded: China helps Iran chip away at US air superiority despite Xi’s no-arms pledge
* [10] 2026-07-22 - outlet not recorded: There is no ‘Middle East.’ There’s a Levant America loves and a Gulf China needs
* [11] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
* [12] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

China's historical civilization dates to at least the 13th century B.C., first under the Shang (to 1046 B.C.) and then the Zhou (1046-221 B.C.) dynasties. [13]

Evidence of early humans such as Homo erectus in China dates to the Paleolithic, around 1.7 million years ago, with unconfirmed sites as old as 2 million years ago. [14]

The imperial era of China began in 221 B.C. under the Qin Dynasty and lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. [15]

Modern Homo sapiens are attested from around 50,000 years ago. [16]

During this period, China alternated between periods of unity and disunity under a succession of imperial dynasties. [17]

Following the end of the Last Glacial Period, in about 8,000 BCE, pottery-making Neolithic cultures emerged. By the 6000s BCE, sedentary agricultural societies had spread across the lower Yellow River basin. These societies became increasingly complex, urbanized, and stratified, but many experienced a population collapse in the late 2000s BCE for unclear reasons. After 2000 BCE, a Bronze Age culture emerged in the Central Plain, dubbed the Erlitou culture after its main site. Erlitou has been controversially identified with the Xia, the traditionally-accepted first dynasty, but no written records exist to confirm this. The Shang dynasty purportedly succeeded the Xia around 1600 BCE, with its early stages tentatively identified with an expansionist state known archaeologically as the Erligang culture. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013) Head of government: Premier LI Qiang (since 11 March 2023) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam Area: 9,596,960 sq km Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east Natural resources: coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, antimony, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest), arable land [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north [21]

=== Culture ===

Beginning in the Qin and Han dynasties and continuing over the following millennia, an area of Chinese cultural influence grew to encompass much of East Asia. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam adopted various political, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic concepts from China, boosted by their adoption of Chinese characters and participation within the tributary system. China has 60 World Heritage Sites, including the Great Wall and Grand Canal, the second-most of any country (behind Italy). [22]

Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.) [23]

Chinese culture has historically emphasized family connections, with filial piety and the veneration of ancestors seen as vital duties under Confucian ethics. [24]

Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet) [25]

Prior to the 20th century, family relations were highly patriarchal, and arranged marriages were commonplace. [26]

Religions: folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.1% (2021 est.) [27]

The CCP pushed for women's equality after coming to power, establishing the All-China Women's Federation to manage women's issues. However, many patriarchal gender norms remain prevalent, and women face lower employment rates and occupational gender segregation. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1912, China traditionally used a 12-month lunisolar calendar. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: communist party-led state Capital: Beijing Legal system: civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes [29]

=== Demographics ===

Population: 1,407,181,209 (2025 est.) [30]

The 2020 Chinese census recorded the population as approximately 1,411,778,724. About 17.95% were 14 years old or younger, 63.35% were between 15 and 59, and 18.7% were over 60. [31]

Median age: 40.8 years (2025 est.) [32]

Between 2010 and 2020, the average population growth rate was 0.53%. [33]

Urbanization: 64.6% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 29.211 million Shanghai, 21.766 million BEIJING (capital), 17.341 million Chongqing, 14.284 million Guangzhou, 14.239 million Tianjin, 13.073 million Shenzhen (2023) [34]

Since 2022, deaths have outpaced births. China has among the lowest total fertility rates (births per woman) in the world, around 1.0 as of 2025. [35]

Life expectancy: 78.7 years (2024 est.) [36]

China has a rapidly aging population: the proportion of Chinese over 65 is predicted to reach 26% by 2050, which would create a large economic and social burden from increased need for caretakers and medical assistance. [37]

Literacy: 96.7% (2020 est.) [38]

The National Bureau of Statistics estimated that the population fell 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, the first decline since 1961. In 2025, China recorded 7.92 million births, the lowest recorded birthrate since at least 1949. [39]

=== Military ===

Branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces or People's Liberation Army Army (PLAA), Navy (PLAN, includes Marine Corps (PLANMC)), Air Force (PLAAF), Rocket Force (PLARF), Aerospace Force (ASF), Cyberspace Force (CSF), Information Support Force (ISF), Joint Logistics Support Force (JLSF); People's Armed Police (PAP, includes Coast Guard, Border Defense Force, Internal Security Forces); PLA Reserve Force (2025) Expenditures: 1.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 2 million active-duty PLA (950,000-1 million Ground; 250,000 Navy, including about 50,000 Marines; 350-400,000 Air Force; 120,000 Rocket Forces; 150-175,000 other forces) (2025) Equipment: the PLA is mostly equipped with domestically produced armaments with smaller amounts of imported weaponry, largely from [[Russia]]; China has one of the world's largest defense-industrial sectors and is capable of producing advanced weapons systems across all military domains (2025) [40]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:China|Timeline: China]] · [[Ukraine]] · [[Taiwan]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 6 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +9 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-26 — +1 source(s)
* rev 5, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 9, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 10, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 11, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] China’s ‘Three-Anti’ Legal Framework in Action - https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/chinas-three-anti-legal-framework-in-action/
* [2] Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.228541/
* [3] China’s Next Aircraft Carrier Is Taking Shape - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.18543/
* [4] China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619058/
* [5] Ahead of Xi Visit, US Designates American Held in China as ‘Wrongfully Detained’ - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688480.619991/
* [6] After 9 Years, China Is Reopening Its Borders To Recycled Plastic - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787689305.502553/
* [7] Our Best Look At China’s New Y-15 Turboprop Airlifter - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787695790.185217/
* [8] China Praises Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim For Supportive Comments on Taiwan - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787691299.924407/
* [13] Background: China's historical civilization dates to at least the 13th century B.C., first under the Shang (to 1046 B.C.) and then the Zhou (1046-221 B.C.) dynasties. - 1787695210.317043
* [14] Evidence of early humans such as Homo erectus in China dates to the Paleolithic, around 1.7 million years ago, with unconfirmed sites as old as 2 million years ago. - 1787707299.963839
* [15] Background: The imperial era of China began in 221 B.C. under the Qin Dynasty and lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. - 1787695210.317043
* [16] Modern Homo sapiens are attested from around 50,000 years ago. - 1787707299.963839
* [17] Background: During this period, China alternated between periods of unity and disunity under a succession of imperial dynasties. - 1787695210.317043
* [18] Following the end of the Last Glacial Period, in about 8,000 BCE, pottery-making Neolithic cultures emerged. By the 6000s BCE, sedentary agricultural societies had spread across the lower Yellow River basin. These societies became increasingly complex, urbanized, and stratified, but many experienced a population collapse in the late 2000s BCE for unclear reasons. After 2000 BCE, a Bronze Age culture emerged in the Central Plain, dubbed the Erlitou culture after its main site. Erlitou has been controversially identified with the Xia, the traditionally-accepted first dynasty, but no written records exist to confirm this. The Shang dynasty purportedly succeeded the Xia around 1600 BCE, with its early stages tentatively identified with an expansionist state known archaeologically as the Erligang culture. - 1787707299.963839
* [19] Chief of state: President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013) Head of government: Premier LI Qiang (since 11 March 2023) - 1787695210.317043
* [20] Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam Area: 9,596,960 sq km Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east Natural resources: coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, antimony, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest), arable land - 1787695210.317043
* [21] Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north - 1787695210.317043
* [22] Beginning in the Qin and Han dynasties and continuing over the following millennia, an area of Chinese cultural influence grew to encompass much of East Asia. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam adopted various political, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic concepts from China, boosted by their adoption of Chinese characters and participation within the tributary system. China has 60 World Heritage Sites, including the Great Wall and Grand Canal, the second-most of any country (behind Italy). - 1787707299.963839
* [23] Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [24] Chinese culture has historically emphasized family connections, with filial piety and the veneration of ancestors seen as vital duties under Confucian ethics. - 1787707299.963839
* [25] Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet) - 1787695210.317043
* [26] Prior to the 20th century, family relations were highly patriarchal, and arranged marriages were commonplace. - 1787707299.963839
* [27] Religions: folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.1% (2021 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [28] The CCP pushed for women's equality after coming to power, establishing the All-China Women's Federation to manage women's issues. However, many patriarchal gender norms remain prevalent, and women face lower employment rates and occupational gender segregation. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1912, China traditionally used a 12-month lunisolar calendar. - 1787707299.963839
* [29] Government type: communist party-led state Capital: Beijing Legal system: civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes - 1787695210.317043
* [30] Population: 1,407,181,209 (2025 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [31] The 2020 Chinese census recorded the population as approximately 1,411,778,724. About 17.95% were 14 years old or younger, 63.35% were between 15 and 59, and 18.7% were over 60. - 1787707299.963839
* [32] Median age: 40.8 years (2025 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [33] Between 2010 and 2020, the average population growth rate was 0.53%. - 1787707299.963839
* [34] Urbanization: 64.6% of total population (2023) Major urban areas: 29.211 million Shanghai, 21.766 million BEIJING (capital), 17.341 million Chongqing, 14.284 million Guangzhou, 14.239 million Tianjin, 13.073 million Shenzhen (2023) - 1787695210.317043
* [35] Since 2022, deaths have outpaced births. China has among the lowest total fertility rates (births per woman) in the world, around 1.0 as of 2025. - 1787707299.963839
* [36] Life expectancy: 78.7 years (2024 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [37] China has a rapidly aging population: the proportion of Chinese over 65 is predicted to reach 26% by 2050, which would create a large economic and social burden from increased need for caretakers and medical assistance. - 1787707299.963839
* [38] Literacy: 96.7% (2020 est.) - 1787695210.317043
* [39] The National Bureau of Statistics estimated that the population fell 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, the first decline since 1961. In 2025, China recorded 7.92 million births, the lowest recorded birthrate since at least 1949. - 1787707299.963839
* [40] Branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces or People's Liberation Army Army (PLAA), Navy (PLAN, includes Marine Corps (PLANMC)), Air Force (PLAAF), Rocket Force (PLARF), Aerospace Force (ASF), Cyberspace Force (CSF), Information Support Force (ISF), Joint Logistics Support Force (JLSF); People's Armed Police (PAP, includes Coast Guard, Border Defense Force, Internal Security Forces); PLA Reserve Force (2025) Expenditures: 1.5% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: approximately 2 million active-duty PLA (950,000-1 million Ground; 250,000 Navy, including about 50,000 Marines; 350-400,000 Air Force; 120,000 Rocket Forces; 150-175,000 other forces) (2025) Equipment: the PLA is mostly equipped with domestically produced armaments with smaller amounts of imported weaponry, largely from Russia; China has one of the world's largest defense-industrial sectors and is capable of producing advanced weapons systems across all military domains (2025) - 1787695210.317043

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Mali

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'''Mali''' as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

{{Situation|asof=2026-08-24|summary=Most recent archived item: Côte d'Ivoire: accusé de viols et d'agressions sexuelles, l'influenceur «Coach Mehdi» a été arrêté au Mali - reported by RFI|latest=RFI}}

{{Coverage note|rows=12|days=2026-02-27 and 2026-08-24}}

== Reporting by provenance ==
The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

== Other archived reporting ==
Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

* [1] 2026-08-24 - RFI: Côte d'Ivoire: accusé de viols et d'agressions sexuelles, l'influenceur «Coach Mehdi» a été arrêté au Mali
* [2] 2026-08-23 - RFI: Mali: FLA Tuareg rebels release about twenty Malian soldiers
* [3] 2026-08-23 - RFI: Mali: the Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers
* [4] 2026-08-23 - RFI: Mali: Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers
* [5] 2026-08-20 - outlet not recorded: Air Quality & Pollen
* [6] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
* [7] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Netanyahu's office: Syria risked status quo
* [8] 2026-08-15 - star.com.tr: Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals.
* [9] 2026-07-26 - outlet not recorded: U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does too
* [10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
* [11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
* [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
* ...and 78 more not listed here.

== Background ==
Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

=== History ===

Present-day Mali is named after the Mali Empire that ruled the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. [13]

Rock art in the Sahara suggests that northern Mali has been inhabited since 10,000 BC, when the Sahara was fertile and rich in wildlife. [14]

At its peak in the 14th century, it was the largest and wealthiest empire in West Africa and controlled an area about twice the size of modern-day France. [15]

Early ceramics have been discovered at the central Malian site of Ounjougou dating to about 9,400 BC, and are believed to represent an instance of the independent invention of pottery in the region. [16]

Primarily a trading empire, Mali derived its wealth from gold and maintained several goldfields and trade routes in the Sahel. [17]

Farming took place by 5000 BC, and iron was used by around 500 BC. In the first millennium BC, early cities and towns were created by Mandé peoples related to the Soninke people, along the middle Niger River, including Dia which began from around 900 BC, and reached its peak around 600 BC, and Djenné-Djenno, which lasted from around 300 BC to 900 AD. Through approximately 6th century BC and 4th century BC, the lucrative trans-Saharan trade in pack animals, gold, salt and slaves had begun, facilitating the rise of West Africa's great empires. There are a few references to Mali in early Islamic literature. Among these are references to "Pene" and "Malal" in the work of al-Bakri in 1068, the story of the conversion of an early ruler, known to Ibn Khaldun (by 1397) as Barmandana, and a few geographical details in the work of al-Idrisi. Mali was once part of three famed West African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, other precious commodities, and slaves majorly during the 14th century reign of Mansa Musa. [18]

=== Leaders ===

Chief of state: Transition President Assimi GOITA (since 7 June 2021) Head of government: Transition Prime Minister Abdoulaye MAIGA (since 22 November 2024) [19]

=== Geography ===

Location: interior Western Africa, southwest of Algeria, north of Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, west of Niger Area: 1,240,192 sq km Terrain: mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast Natural resources: gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone, uranium, gypsum, granite, hydropower [20]

=== Climate ===

Climate: subtropical to arid; hot and dry (February to June); rainy, humid, and mild (June to November); cool and dry (November to February) [21]

=== Culture ===

The varied everyday culture of Malians reflects the country's ethnic and geographic diversity. Most Malians wear flowing, colorful robes called boubous that are typical of West Africa. [22]

Ethnic groups: Bambara 33.3%, Fulani (Peuhl) 13.3%, Sarakole/Soninke/Marka 9.8%, Senufo/Manianka 9.6%, Malinke 8.8%, Dogon 8.7%, Sonrai 5.9%, Bobo 2.1%, Tuareg/Bella 1.7%, other Malian 6%, from members of Economic Community of West Africa 0.4%, other 0.3% (2018 est.) [23]

Malians frequently participate in traditional festivals, dances, and ceremonies. [24]

Languages: Bambara (official), French 17.2%, Peuhl/Foulfoulbe/Fulani 9.4%, Dogon 7.2%, Maraka/Soninke 6.4%, Malinke 5.6%, Sonrhai/Djerma 5.6%, Minianka 4.3%, Tamacheq 3.5%, Senoufo 2.6%, Bobo 2.1%, other 6.3%, unspecified 0.7% (2009 est.) [25]

Malian musical traditions are derived from the griots, who are known as "Keepers of Memories". Malian music is diverse and has several different genres. [26]

Religions: Muslim 93.9%, Christian 2.8%, animist 0.7%, none 2.5% (2018 est.) [27]

Some influences are kora virtuoso musician Toumani Diabaté, the ngoni with Bassekou Kouyate the virtuoso of the electric jeli ngoni, the late roots and blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, the Tuareg band Tinariwen, Khaira Arby, and several Afro-pop artists such as Salif Keita, the duo Amadou et Mariam, Oumou Sangare, Fatoumata Diawara, Rokia Traore, and Habib Koité. Dance also plays a large role; parties are common events among friends, and traditional mask dances are performed at ceremonial events. Though Mali's literature is less famous than its music, Mali has always been one of Africa's liveliest intellectual centers. [28]

=== Government ===

Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Bamako Legal system: civil law system based on the French civil law model and influenced by customary law; Constitutional Court reviews legislative acts [29]

=== Demographics ===

In 2021 the population was an estimated 21.9 million, which grew from 7.7 million in 1982. [30]

Population: 22,634,423 (2025 est.) Median age: 16.5 years (2025 est.) [31]

The population is predominantly rural (69.7% in 2022), and 5%–10% of Malians are nomadic. More than 90% live in southern Mali, especially in Bamako, which has over 4 million residents. [32]

Urbanization: 46.2% of total population (2023) [33]

In 2024, about 47% were 14 years old or younger, 50% were 15–64 years old, and 3% were 65 and older. [34]

Major urban areas: 2.929 million BAMAKO (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 63.2 years (2024 est.) [35]

The median age was 16.4 years. [36]

Literacy: 35.5% (2018 est.) [37]

The birth rate in 2024 was 40 births per 1,000, and the total fertility rate in 2024 was 5.35 children per woman. The death rate in 2024 was 8.1 deaths per 1,000. Life expectancy at birth was 63.2 years total (60.9 for males and 65.6 for females). [38]

=== Military ===

Branches: Malian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Maliennes or FAMa): Army (l’Armée de Terre), Air Force (l’Armée de l’Air); National Guard (la Garde Nationale du Mali); National Gendarmerie of Mali (Gendarmerie Nationale du Mali) (2025) Expenditures: 4.3% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: information varies; estimated 35-40,000 active FAMa, Gendarmerie, and National Guard (2025) Equipment: the FAMa's inventory includes mostly Soviet-era weapons and equipment along with smaller quantities of more modern material from a variety of suppliers, including France, [[Russia]], South Africa, Türkiye, and the UAE (2025) [39]

{{See also|pages=[[Timeline:Mali|Timeline: Mali]]}}

== Publication history ==
What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

* rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 4 source(s)
* rev 2, 2026-08-25 — +9 source(s)
* rev 3, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 4, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 5, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 7, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
* rev 8, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

== Sources ==
Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

* [1] Côte d'Ivoire: accusé de viols et d'agressions sexuelles, l'influenceur «Coach Mehdi» a été arrêté au Mali - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229357/
* [2] Mali: FLA Tuareg rebels release about twenty Malian soldiers - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688108.461736/
* [3] Mali: the Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688108.461736/
* [4] Mali: Tuareg rebels of the FLA release about twenty Malian soldiers - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787688108.461736/
* [6] U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040287/
* [8] Reaction from Hezbollah to Netanyahu: He wants to raise tensions for election goals. - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787693124.229412/
* [13] Background: Present-day Mali is named after the Mali Empire that ruled the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. - 1787695240.298211
* [14] Rock art in the Sahara suggests that northern Mali has been inhabited since 10,000 BC, when the Sahara was fertile and rich in wildlife. - 1787707394.665485
* [15] Background: At its peak in the 14th century, it was the largest and wealthiest empire in West Africa and controlled an area about twice the size of modern-day France. - 1787695240.298211
* [16] Early ceramics have been discovered at the central Malian site of Ounjougou dating to about 9,400 BC, and are believed to represent an instance of the independent invention of pottery in the region. - 1787707394.665485
* [17] Background: Primarily a trading empire, Mali derived its wealth from gold and maintained several goldfields and trade routes in the Sahel. - 1787695240.298211
* [18] Farming took place by 5000 BC, and iron was used by around 500 BC. In the first millennium BC, early cities and towns were created by Mandé peoples related to the Soninke people, along the middle Niger River, including Dia which began from around 900 BC, and reached its peak around 600 BC, and Djenné-Djenno, which lasted from around 300 BC to 900 AD. Through approximately 6th century BC and 4th century BC, the lucrative trans-Saharan trade in pack animals, gold, salt and slaves had begun, facilitating the rise of West Africa's great empires. There are a few references to Mali in early Islamic literature. Among these are references to "Pene" and "Malal" in the work of al-Bakri in 1068, the story of the conversion of an early ruler, known to Ibn Khaldun (by 1397) as Barmandana, and a few geographical details in the work of al-Idrisi. Mali was once part of three famed West African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, other precious commodities, and slaves majorly during the 14th century reign of Mansa Musa. - 1787707394.665485
* [19] Chief of state: Transition President Assimi GOITA (since 7 June 2021) Head of government: Transition Prime Minister Abdoulaye MAIGA (since 22 November 2024) - 1787695240.298211
* [20] Location: interior Western Africa, southwest of Algeria, north of Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, west of Niger Area: 1,240,192 sq km Terrain: mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast Natural resources: gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone, uranium, gypsum, granite, hydropower - 1787695240.298211
* [21] Climate: subtropical to arid; hot and dry (February to June); rainy, humid, and mild (June to November); cool and dry (November to February) - 1787695240.298211
* [22] The varied everyday culture of Malians reflects the country's ethnic and geographic diversity. Most Malians wear flowing, colorful robes called boubous that are typical of West Africa. - 1787707394.665485
* [23] Ethnic groups: Bambara 33.3%, Fulani (Peuhl) 13.3%, Sarakole/Soninke/Marka 9.8%, Senufo/Manianka 9.6%, Malinke 8.8%, Dogon 8.7%, Sonrai 5.9%, Bobo 2.1%, Tuareg/Bella 1.7%, other Malian 6%, from members of Economic Community of West Africa 0.4%, other 0.3% (2018 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [24] Malians frequently participate in traditional festivals, dances, and ceremonies. - 1787707394.665485
* [25] Languages: Bambara (official), French 17.2%, Peuhl/Foulfoulbe/Fulani 9.4%, Dogon 7.2%, Maraka/Soninke 6.4%, Malinke 5.6%, Sonrhai/Djerma 5.6%, Minianka 4.3%, Tamacheq 3.5%, Senoufo 2.6%, Bobo 2.1%, other 6.3%, unspecified 0.7% (2009 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [26] Malian musical traditions are derived from the griots, who are known as "Keepers of Memories". Malian music is diverse and has several different genres. - 1787707394.665485
* [27] Religions: Muslim 93.9%, Christian 2.8%, animist 0.7%, none 2.5% (2018 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [28] Some influences are kora virtuoso musician Toumani Diabaté, the ngoni with Bassekou Kouyate the virtuoso of the electric jeli ngoni, the late roots and blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, the Tuareg band Tinariwen, Khaira Arby, and several Afro-pop artists such as Salif Keita, the duo Amadou et Mariam, Oumou Sangare, Fatoumata Diawara, Rokia Traore, and Habib Koité. Dance also plays a large role; parties are common events among friends, and traditional mask dances are performed at ceremonial events. Though Mali's literature is less famous than its music, Mali has always been one of Africa's liveliest intellectual centers. - 1787707394.665485
* [29] Government type: semi-presidential republic Capital: Bamako Legal system: civil law system based on the French civil law model and influenced by customary law; Constitutional Court reviews legislative acts - 1787695240.298211
* [30] In 2021 the population was an estimated 21.9 million, which grew from 7.7 million in 1982. - 1787707394.665485
* [31] Population: 22,634,423 (2025 est.) Median age: 16.5 years (2025 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [32] The population is predominantly rural (69.7% in 2022), and 5%–10% of Malians are nomadic. More than 90% live in southern Mali, especially in Bamako, which has over 4 million residents. - 1787707394.665485
* [33] Urbanization: 46.2% of total population (2023) - 1787695240.298211
* [34] In 2024, about 47% were 14 years old or younger, 50% were 15–64 years old, and 3% were 65 and older. - 1787707394.665485
* [35] Major urban areas: 2.929 million BAMAKO (capital) (2023) Life expectancy: 63.2 years (2024 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [36] The median age was 16.4 years. - 1787707394.665485
* [37] Literacy: 35.5% (2018 est.) - 1787695240.298211
* [38] The birth rate in 2024 was 40 births per 1,000, and the total fertility rate in 2024 was 5.35 children per woman. The death rate in 2024 was 8.1 deaths per 1,000. Life expectancy at birth was 63.2 years total (60.9 for males and 65.6 for females). - 1787707394.665485
* [39] Branches: Malian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Maliennes or FAMa): Army (l’Armée de Terre), Air Force (l’Armée de l’Air); National Guard (la Garde Nationale du Mali); National Gendarmerie of Mali (Gendarmerie Nationale du Mali) (2025) Expenditures: 4.3% of GDP (2024 est.) Personnel: information varies; estimated 35-40,000 active FAMa, Gendarmerie, and National Guard (2025) Equipment: the FAMa's inventory includes mostly Soviet-era weapons and equipment along with smaller quantities of more modern material from a variety of suppliers, including France, Russia, South Africa, Türkiye, and the UAE (2025) - 1787695240.298211

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